Geschwister Tanner by Robert Walser

"Geschwister Tanner" by Robert Walser is a novel written in 1906. Twenty-year-old Simon Tanner drifts through jobs and life, searching for his place in the world. He moves from bank clerk to bookseller to nurse, rejecting stability and security. His accomplished siblings—a teacher, a scholar, a painter, and a brother in an asylum—watch as Simon embraces aimlessness over ambition. Through encounters with lovers, employers, and family, he chooses the present moment over any promised future. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Walser, Robert, 1878-1956
Title Geschwister Tanner
Note Wikipedia page about this book: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geschwister_Tanner
Credits Produced by Jana Srna and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
Reading Level Reading ease score: 78.3 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language German
LoC Class PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures
Subject Families -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 36172
Release Date
Last Update Mar 16, 2012
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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