Jakob von Gunten (Paperback)

By Robert Walser, Christopher Middleton
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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 originality and disconcerting humor, whose beautiful sentences have the simplicity and strangeness of a painting by Henri Rousseau.

Praise for Jakob von Gunten…


"Wonderful...eccentric." --The New York Sun

Product Details ISBN-10: 0940322218
ISBN-13: 9780940322219
Published: NYRB Classics, 09/30/1999
Pages: 200
Language: English