| Jakob Von Gunten Contributor(s): Walser, Robert (Author), Middleton, Christopher (Translator), Middleton, Christopher (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0940322218 ISBN-13: 9780940322219 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1999 Annotation: 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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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Coming Of Age - Fiction | Urban |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 99015894 |
| Series: New York Review Books (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.39" H x 5.04" W x 8.08" (0.45 lbs) 200 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Germany - Ethnic Orientation - German |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |