Jakob von Gunten by Robert Walser
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.Robert Walser was born in 1878 in Switzerland. Before being committed to a mental institution in 1933, he wrote nine novels and hundreds of short tales. In 1956, he passed away.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780940322219 |
| ISBN 10 | 0940322218 |
| Title | Jakob von Gunten |
| Author | Robert Walser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The New York Review of Books, Inc |
| Year published | 1999-09-30 |
| Number of pages | 200 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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