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Jakob Von Gunten
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Series: New York Review Books (Paperback), Book 10
Classic FictionGeneral Fiction
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ISBN10: 0940322218
ISBN13: 9780940322219
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Sep 30 1999
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.04 Depth: 8.08
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780940322219
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Sep 30 1999
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.04 Depth: 8.08
Language: English
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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