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.
Jakob von Gunten (New York Review Books Classics)
Robert Walser
$16.95
- SKU:
- 9780940322219
- UPC:
- 9780940322219
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- Published by:
- NYRB Classics
- Translated by:
- Christopher Middleton
- Pub date:
- 09/30/1999
- Binding type:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 176
- ISBN:
- 9780940322219