A Schoolboy?s Diary brings together more than seventy of Robert Walser?s strange and wonderful stories, most never before available in English. Opening with a sequence from Walser?s first book, ?Fritz Kocher?s Essays,? the complete classroom assignments of a fictional boy who has met a tragically early death, this selection ranges from sketches of uncomprehending editors, overly passionate readers, and dreamy artists to tales of devilish adultery, sexual encounters on a train, and Walser?s service in World War I. Throughout, Walser?s careening, confounding, delicious voice holds the reader transfixed.