Several volumes of the Critical Robert Walser Edition, which contain the "Mikrogramme", are discussed. The review introduces the new edition and explains how to work with it and what consequences the new textual basis has for interpretation. Walser's so-called "Mikrogramme" have been a source of fascination for researchers since they first became known in 1957. The notes in tiny writing invited all kinds of speculations about the psychological disposition of the author, and mystifications about the supposedly secret status of what was written down. Also an ethics and/or poetics 'of the small' are read out of them again and again. It is therefore all the more important to present them in a critical edition that first of all accept the micro...