''The Robber'' () is a novel by the Swiss writer

Robert Walser Robert Walser (15 April 1878 – 25 December 1956) was a German language Swiss writer. He additionally worked as a copyist, an inventor's assistant, a butler, and in various other low-paying trades. Despite marginal early success in his lit ...

, written in 1925 and published posthumously in 1972. It is about an idle and maladjusted man who appears to have commissioned the novel's narrator to write about his life in

Bern Bern (), or Berne (), ; ; ; . is the ''de facto'' Capital city, capital of Switzerland, referred to as the "federal city".; ; ; . According to the Swiss constitution, the Swiss Confederation intentionally has no "capital", but Bern has gov ...

and failures with women. The text is full of digressions with little relation to the plot. It was one of the manuscripts Walser wrote in a miniature script, a smaller variation of ''

Kurrent () is an old form of German-language handwriting based on late medieval cursive writing, also known as ("cursive script"), ("German script"), and ''German cursive''. Over the history of its use into the first part of the 20th century, many ...

'', which were found after his death. The entire novel was written on 24 manuscript pages. ''The Robber'' was found untitled and is assumed to never have been intended for publication by its author. It was first transcribed and published by .

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University of Nebraska Press
{{DEFAULTSORT:Robber 1972 novels 20th-century Swiss novels Novels published posthumously Novels by Robert Walser Novels set in Switzerland