For two days we spoke about Robert Walser with Gino Giometti (who read without stop the clinic reports of the doctor who treated Walser in Herisau) and Lucas Marco Gisi. Gino Giometti is the translator and editor of Robert Walser in Italy; the clinical reports he read showed a Robert Walser completely uninterested in his own legacy to posterity, reading popular magazines, talking to his voices, and surveilled closely by Carl Seelig, who dubiously encouraged him constantly to write again while repeating in all newspapers that Robert Walser would never ever write again. Continue reading ‘Robert Walser, Gianfranco Baruchello’
