Jakob von Gunten
Robert Walser
- 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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