The Battle of Sempach

“Beautiful and haunting” – The New Yorker Swiss modernist author Robert Walser recounts the Battle of Sempach in brief but violent detail. One day, in the middle of high summer, a military expedition was advancing slowly down the dusty country road that led towards a district of Luzern. The bright, actually more than bright, sun dazzled down over swaying armour serving to cover human bodies, over prancing horses, over helmets and parts of faces, over equine heads and tails, over orname