To celebrate the centennary of Robert Walser’s birth, the renowned German author Martin WalserWalser, Martin published a short text in which he dwelt upon his namesake’s ‘unrelenting stylestyle’—a phrase used by the Swiss writer himself in a piece entitled ‘Je t’adore’. While Martin WalserWalser, Martin had been part of Group 47 after the war (a miscellany of authors devoted to the renewal of German literature in the wake of European fascism), in later life his reputation was sullied by the discovery of his Nazi party membership, taken up in 1944 when Walser was just seventeen years old. He himself disputed the fact, insisting somewhat contentiously that he must have been enrolled by somebody else. Walser’s own politics swung from left to right during the second half of the twentieth century.