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In her preface to John Walser’s Chosen Stories, Susan Sontag explains Walser as “a good-humored, nice Beckett.” The more prevalent assessment would be to “a witty Kafka.” Equally preparations efficiently explain the reading expertise in these stories: the audience is actually in the clear presence of a brain-bending wizard, but one indicated by a wry, confident speech, as evidently pleasant because it is disturbing.Walser is one of the last century’s excellent contemporary masters—revered by everybody from Walter Benjamin to Hermann Hesse to Watts. G. Sebald—and Chosen Tales provides the highest display of his expertise. “He is most athome in the style of short fiction,” based on T.