Jakob Von Gunten

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.

Author: Robert Walser
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 09/30/1999
Series: New York Review Books (Paperback) #10
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.04w x 0.39d
ISBN: 9780940322219
Language: English