Jakob Von Gunten

von Robert Walser

Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Belletristik Erzählerische Themen, Stoffe, Motive Heranwachsen
• ISBN: 9780940322219
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 30.09.1999
• Größe: 205 x 128 mm
• Verlag: New York Review of Books
• Übersetzung: Christopher Middleton