Jakob von Gunten

Jakob von Gunten
Author: Robert Walser
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2014-03-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1590178181


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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.


Jakob von Gunten
Language: en
Pages: 212
Authors: Robert Walser
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-03-05 - Publisher: New York Review of Books

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The Swiss writer Robert Walser is one of the quiet geniuses of twentieth-century literature. Largely self-taught and altogether indifferent to worldly success,
Running with the Devil
Language: en
Pages: 281
Authors: Robert Walser
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-06-05 - Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

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“A solid, scholarly analysis of the power, meaning, musical structure, and sociopolitical contexts of the most popular examples of heavy metal.” —Library
Clairvoyant of the Small
Language: en
Pages: 403
Authors: Susan Bernofsky
Categories: Authors, Swiss
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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The first English-language biography of one of the great literary talents of the twentieth century, written by his award-winning translator"Bernofsky takes us i
The Assistant
Language: en
Pages: 306
Authors: Robert Walser
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: New Directions Publishing

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The Assistant by Robert Walser--who was admired greatly by Kafka, Musil, Walter Benjamin, and W. G. Sebald--is now presented in English for the very first time.
Selected Stories
Language: en
Pages: 218
Authors: Robert Walser
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-30 - Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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In her preface to Robert Walser's Selected Stories, Susan Sontag describes Walser as "a good-humored, sweet Beckett." The more common comparison is to "a comic