Selected stories / [electronic resource] Robert Walser ; with a foreword by Susan Sontag ; translated by Christopher Middleton and others.

Response to a request -- Flower days -- Trousers -- Two strange stories -- Balloon journey -- Kleist in Thun -- The job application -- The boat -- A little ramble -- Helbling's story -- Little Berliner -- Nervous -- The walk -- So! I've got you -- Nothing at all -- Kienast -- Poets -- Frau Wilke -- The street (1) -- Snowdrops -- Winter -- The she-owl -- Knocking -- Titus -- Vladimir -- Parisian newspapers -- Monkey -- Dostoevsky's "Idiot" -- Am I demanding? -- The little tree -- Stork and hedgehog -- A contribution to the celebration of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer -- A sort of speech -- A letter to Therese Breitbach -- A village tale -- Aviator -- Pimp -- Masters and workers -- Essay of freedom -- A Biedermeier story -- The honeymoon -- Thoughts on Cezanne.