Jakob von Gunten
Paperback
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Request this book.| Genre: | Literature |
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| Language: | English |
Paperback | |
| ISBN13: | 9780940322219 |
| ISBN10: | 0940322218 |
| Pages: | 200 |
| Dimensions: | 4.96 x 7.91 x 0.57 inches |
| Weight: | 204 g |
| Published: | September 30, 1999 |
| Edition: | 13 |
About the Book
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 originality and disconcerting humor, whose beautiful sentences have the simplicity and strangeness of a painting by Henri Rousseau.