Jakob Von Gunten

Name: Jakob Von Gunten
Brand: New York Review of Books
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By Robert Walser

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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.

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Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Languages:: Original: English
Number of Pages:: 200
Publisher:: New York Review of Books
Publication Date:: 1999-09-30
ISBN / EAN:: 9780940322219
Weight:: 204 g
Dimensions:: 13/21/1 cm
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]

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