Jakob von Gunten

Author/Contributor(s):	Walser, Robert; Middleton, Christopher; Middleton, Christopher
Publisher:	NYRB Classics
Date:	9/30/1999
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.