A move in secrecy
Question: What’s in this truck, hurrying through Bern, Switzerland, in the early morning hours of Monday, April 27?
You got it in one guess: it’s the contents of the Robert Walser Archive, being relocated from Zurich to Bern in preparation for the September opening of the new Robert Walser Center. Why in secrecy? Because of the precious cargo, of course.
According to this article in yesterday’s Bieler Tagblatt, the center will permit “Walser lovers and researchers to consult all the manuscripts of Robert Walser and Carl Seelig in digital form.”
Go to the article and click on the arrows beneath the truck photo — you will see several more photos, including the containers holding the “famous Walser ‘Mikgrogramme’.”
I first mentioned this move back in 2007.
I have fond memories of the Zurich archive from my visit there back in 1996. Bernhard Echte was there and he was very gracious. He gave me a few photocopied pages of microscript. Don’t think I’ve ever written about that visit; I should do that. I did write about visiting the nearby Joyce Archive in the same trip to Zurich.
ADDITION 5/5: English-language version of the article is here.
Sam :: Apr.28.2009 :: Uncategorized :: 1 Comment »
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