| Title | : | Jakob von Gunten |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Robert Walser & Christopher Middleton |
| Release | : | 1999-09-30 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Fiction & Literature, Books, Literary Fiction |
| Size | : | 984588 |
| 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. |
