Jakob Von Gunten |
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Author:
| Walser, Robert |
Introduction by:
| Middleton, Christopher |
Translator:
| Middleton, Christopher |
ISBN: | 978-0-940322-21-9 |
Publication Date: | Sep 1999 |
Publisher: | New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
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Imprint: | NYRB Classics |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $16.95 |
Book Description:
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The Swiss writer Robert Walser is one of the quiet geniuses of twentieth-century literature. Largely self-taught and altogether indifferent to worldly success, Walser wrote a range of short stories, essays, as well as four novels, of which
Jakob von Gunten is widely recognized as the finest. The book is a young man's inquisitive and irreverent account of life in what turns out to be the most uncanny of schools. It is the work of an outsider artist, a writer of uncompromising...
More DescriptionThe Swiss writer Robert Walser is one of the quiet geniuses of twentieth-century literature. Largely self-taught and altogether indifferent to worldly success, Walser wrote a range of short stories, essays, as well as four novels, of which Jakob von Gunten is widely recognized as the finest. The book is a young man's inquisitive and irreverent account of life in what turns out to be the most uncanny of schools. It is the work of an outsider artist, a writer of uncompromising originality and disconcerting humor, whose beautiful sentences have the simplicity and strangeness of a painting by Henri Rousseau.