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    brought to Kayseri in the Ottoman Empire. According to Sibylla Schuster-Walser / Encyclopædia Iranica, in Kayseri, "he learned cotton cultivation and dyeing"...
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    1707, the 17th century Casa Pala. The town also houses a museum of mountaineering, while in the hamlet of Borca is the Walser Museum, devoted to the local...
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    town Montagnola and rented four small rooms in a castle-like building, the Casa Camuzzi. Here, he explored his writing projects further; he began to paint...
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    1931, after finishing The Road Back (Der Weg zurück), he bought a villa (Casa Monte Tabor) in Ronco, Switzerland with the substantial financial wealth...
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    he himself defined as a "flying chalet", is inspired by the traditional Walser alpine architecture that Mollino studied in the summer of 1930 and for which...
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    Lenica and continuing with the writers Franz Kafka, Bruno Schulz, Robert Walser and Michel de Ghelderode, puppeteers Wladyslaw Starewicz and Czech Richard...
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  • director. Adelphi's translated publications include works by Nietzsche, Robert Walser, Georges Simenon, Nabokov, Somerset Maugham, Tolkien, Gottfried Benn, Jack...
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    (Town of the Witches in Italian) and Striogn at Cròf (Wizards of Croveo in Walser dialect). The Balma del Capretto (Shelter of Baby Goat ) in Croveo is one...
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    house in Brazil was later turned into a cultural centre and is now known as Casa Stefan Zweig. Zweig was a prominent writer in the 1920s and 1930s, befriending...
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    famous essay by Italo Calvino Sei proposte per il prossimo millennio. Robert Walser, Amos Oz, George Steiner, Álvaro Mutis, António Lobo Antunes, María Zambrano...
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