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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Walser, Robert; Middleton, Christopher; Middleton, Christopher
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| Publisher: |
NYRB Classics
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| Date: |
09/30/1999
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| Binding: |
Paperback
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| Condition: |
NEW
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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.
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