Robert Walser, Christopher Middleton
Jakob von Gunten
Paperback
(NYRB Classics Sept. 30, 1999)
, F First Edition Thus edition
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.
- Series
- New York Review Books Classics (Book 10)
- ISBN
- / 9780940322219
- Pages
- 200
- Weight
- 7.0 oz.
- Dimensions
- 5.0 x 0.6 in.
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