[Script Info] Title: [Events] Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.88,0:00:04.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Interlining] Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.75,0:00:08.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The name of the Swiss Robert\NWalser is still little known here. Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.24,0:00:11.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But he has already been\Nadmired by some of the Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.55,0:00:13.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,greatest writers and\Nintellectuals of the 20th century, Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.58,0:00:16.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he has just had his most\Nimportant book published in Brazil. Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.55,0:00:20.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See in the comment of our\Ncollaborator, Carlos Eduardo Ortolan. Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.13,0:00:22.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Swiss German-speaking writer\NRobert Walser belongs to the Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.54,0:00:26.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,category of authors who have\Nonly been recognized posthumously. Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.65,0:00:30.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Alcoholic, after\Na life of mediocre Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.73,0:00:32.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,literary success,\Nand meaningless jobs, Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.76,0:00:37.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the depressive neurotic Walser\Nwould end his days in a psychiatric Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.23,0:00:41.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,institution, in which he would say:\N"I'm not here to write, but to be crazy." Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.40,0:00:45.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The gallery of admirers of\NWalser's sparse work brings Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.26,0:00:48.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,together Franz Kafka, who\Nhad him as a master and model, Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.29,0:00:50.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, more modernly, Walter Benjamin, Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.61,0:00:54.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Elias Canetti, Susan Sontag and Coetzee. Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.07,0:00:59.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Walser's masterpiece, the\Nnovel "Jakob von Gunten: Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.04,0:01:01.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Um Diário", has just\Nwon a Brazilian edition. Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.56,0:01:04.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jakob von Gunten's fictional memories Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.18,0:01:07.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in short, they talk\Nabout their time at the Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.91,0:01:09.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Benjamenta Institute,\Na school for boys, Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.94,0:01:13.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in which the strange character\Nis admitted as a boarding student. Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.66,0:01:16.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything, however, sounds unusual at school. Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.06,0:01:19.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The boys, who are there to learn\Nto be raised from noble families, Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.71,0:01:24.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,strictly speaking, learn nothing\Nbut lessons in humility and behavior. Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.10,0:01:27.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is a single book,\Nthe Institute manual, Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.05,0:01:29.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a single teacher,\NMiss Benjamenta, Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.75,0:01:31.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sister of the owner\Nof the Institution, Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.77,0:01:34.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who spends her days\Nclosed in her office, Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.24,0:01:36.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,counting money and reading newspapers. Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.36,0:01:46.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Coming from an aristocratic\Nfamily, von Gunten says all the Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.66,0:01:49.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,time that he is there precisely\Nto learn obedience and humility. Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.84,0:01:52.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But through his paradoxical\Nlogic, he constantly Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.70,0:01:57.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ridicules all values ​​of\Ncivilization and humanity, Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.60,0:01:59.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everything that is considered Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.71,0:02:02.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,high, in a kind of\Nimpish arrivism, Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.31,0:02:05.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reminiscent of our Brás Cubas\Nand their brazenness and cynicism. Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.49,0:02:08.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You would give me the\Nfirst place among mortals, Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.14,0:02:10.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"above science and wealth, Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.92,0:02:14.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"because you were the genuine\Ninspiration of the heavens. Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.59,0:02:18.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You would be the relief of\Nour melancholy humanity." Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.64,0:02:22.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Coetzee's words,\N"Essay dedicated to Walser", Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.15,0:02:24.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gunten would be the\Nkind of boy who, because of Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.22,0:02:27.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,his deep contempt for\Neverything human and moral, Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.91,0:02:31.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he could integrate Hitler's\Nbrown shirts in the near future. Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.57,0:02:59.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Strange allegory, the\Nbook of the apolitical Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.60,0:03:03.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Robert Walser shows\Nthe ruins of civilization Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.06,0:03:05.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the approach of\Nincreasingly dark times. Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.71,0:03:07.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All very Kafkaesque Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.66,0:03:11.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- that is, the most faithful\Nexpression of a tragic reality.