St. Fechin
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Currently reading Robert Walser's The Assistant which is surprisingly tedious and outdated. Padded out by the blandest observations. Nauseating tone. Perhaps it's the translation but I'm just gagging to be finished with it so I can move on to John Cheever's Falconer or Graham Greene's The Power & the Glory.
Yeah? I'm (sort of) a fan of his short pieces and I've been planning on reading his novels in the near future. I find Walser to be almost entirely padding, which I don't have a problem with actually, I think he's a very 'pure' writer. It's the sort of thing I enjoy reading at the time, but struggle to recall much of later. I'm certainly not sure his style would be able to sustain a long narrative without irritating the reader.
Who's the translator btw?