Jakob von Gunten (New York Review Books Classics Book 10)

Jakob von Gunten (New York Review Books Classics Book 10)

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.
Country USA
Manufacturer NYRB Classics
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-03-05
Format Kindle eBook

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