Download or read book The Robber written by Robert Walser and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Robber, Robert Walser?s last novel, tells the story of a dreamer on a journey of self-discovery. It is a hybrid of love story, tragedy, and farce, with a protagonist who sweet-talks teaspoons, flirts with important politicians, plays maidservant to young boys, and uses a passerby?s mouth as an ashtray. Walser?s novel spoofs the stiff-upper-lipped European petit bourgeois and its nervous reactions to whatever threatens the stability of its worldview.