Werke. Berner Ausgabe

With "Seeland" (1920), Robert Walser created the most significant of his prose collections - an extraordinary volume featuring six longer, richly illustrated, and atmospheric stories: "Life of a Painter," "Travel Report," "Nature Study," "The Walk," "The Image of the Father," and "Hans." It is the book of a landscape. The Seeland near Biel, where Walser grew up and worked as a writer for many years, transforms into a synesthetic experience space. Strollers, romantic dreamers, and aimless seekers are its natural inhabitants, experiencing fleeting moments of happiness. Walser's literary depiction of nature and the environment is examined in the afterword for the first time through the lens of Nature Writing.