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  • Published: 5 March 2014
  • ISBN: 9781590178188
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 200

Jakob von Gunten





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.

  • Published: 5 March 2014
  • ISBN: 9781590178188
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 200

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