Christian Wagner y Robert Walser: puntos de encuentro entre el poeta y el narrador

Abstract

Two Außenseiter with very different origins can be found on the inventory of forgotten authors - even if the Swiss writer has experienced a (albeit, delayed) renaissance. They have both bequeathed an extraordinarily original contribution to German language literature, a contribution which is essentially poetic in Wagner’s case and fundamentally written in prose in the case of Walser. Such notable contributions have nonetheless rarely been taken into major consideration, and while there may be some studies on the individual authors, there certainly have never been any from a comparative perspective. The significant resemblances between the two writers, which are, in the opinion of this author, not only evident in relation to literary elements, but also with regard to their intellectual world, to their conception of life or, even, to their personal lives, invite a detailed presentation of the connections between these two authors. That is precisely the objective of this article.