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
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Limba:
Engleza
Data publicării:
1999
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Tip copertă:
Paperback
Nr Pag:
176
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ISBN:
9780940322219
Dimensiuni: l: 12.6cm | H: 20.2cm | 1.7cm | 216g
