Der Gehülfe

The Assistant

Author

Robert Walser

Language

German

Year

1908

Country

Switzerland

Genre

Novel

modern europe

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The Assistant is a 1908 novel by the Swiss writer Robert Walser. It is about an aimless man who becomes the assistant of an eccentric Swiss inventor. The story is loosely autobiographical and based on Walser's experience as assistant to the engineer Carl Dubler in Wädenswil from the end of July 1903 to the beginning of January 1904.