Jakob von Gunten (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	The New York Review Of Books, Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 1999
First published:	September 1999
Authors:	Robert Walser
Translators:	Christopher Middleton
Introduction by:	Christopher Middleton
Dimensions:	202 x 125 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	176
ISBN-13:	978-0-940322-21-9
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-940322-21-8
Barcode:	9780940322219

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