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.
- ISBN10 3796524664
- ISBN13 9783796524660
- Publish Date 4 October 2013 (first published 30 September 1999)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country CH
- Imprint Schwabe Verlagsgruppe AG
- Edition 1., Aufl. ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 174
- Language German