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Looking at Pictures - Robert Walser Satoshi Kon this is the essential comicsLooking at Pictures, by Robert Walser, translated by Susan Bernofsky ISBN 9780811224246 small 144 page hardcover from New Directions Christine Burgin *** "Written between 1902 and 1930 and, with two exceptions, previously untranslated, the pieces gathered here elaborate a nervous, slapstick sort of hack journalism that set the stage for a fabulously experimental modernist writing situation whose fans included Kafka, Musil, and Benjamin." John Kelsey,