“Clairvoyant of the Small”: A Conversation with Susan Bernofsky & Eileen Myles

Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York present a conversation between writer and translator Susan Bernofsky and poet and writer Eileen Myles about Bernofsky’s “Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser,“ the first English-language biography of Swiss author Robert Walser. In their conversation, Myles and Bernofsky will reflect on Walser’s intriguing work and life, problems of translation, and on how we can read Walser from today’s perspective.