LoginJakob von Gunten (New York Review Books Classics)
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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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Manufacturer: NYRB Classics
Release date: 30 September 1999
ISBN-10 : 0940322218 | ISBN-13: 9780940322219
Release date: 30 September 1999
ISBN-10 : 0940322218 | ISBN-13: 9780940322219
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