Jakob von Gunten

Jakob von Gunten
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Publisher : New York Review of Books
Total Pages : 212
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ISBN-10 : 0940322218
ISBN-13 : 9780940322219
Rating : 4/5 (219 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Jakob von Gunten by : Robert Walser

Download or read book Jakob von Gunten written by Robert Walser and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 1999-09-30 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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