Jakob Von Gunten by Robert Walser (1969, Book) 
Jakob Von Gunten by Robert Walser (1969, Book)
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication Date: 1969-01-01
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN-10: 0292700156
ISBN-13: 9780292700154
Product ID: EPID2151744
Description: Robert Walser's 1909 novel, his third and one of his greatest, is the story of a young man enrolled in a bizarre school for butlers--much like the school Walser himself attended in 1905. In the novel, the school is run (precariously) by ...
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Synopsis
Robert Walser's 1909 novel, his third and one of his greatest, is the story of a young man enrolled in a bizarre school for butlers--much like the school Walser himself attended in 1905. In the novel, the school is run (precariously) by a brother and sister, both of whom move from despising young Jakob to wanting him. Written in the form of a diary, JAKOB VON GUNTEN is a slightly mad, deeply mysterious, fable-like novel that has been compared to Kafka (who read Walser's work with delight) and Dostoevsky.

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Publication Date:1969-01-01

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Length:154 pages

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"All [the early novels] draw for their material on [Walser's] own life experience; but in the case of JAKOB VON GUNTEN--the best known of his early novels, and deservedly so--that experience is wonderfully transmuted....In Kafka one catches echoes of Walser's prose, with its lucid syntactic layout, its casual juxtapositions of the elevated with the banal, and its eerily convincing logic of paradox...."
New York Review of Books - J. M. Coetzee (11/02/2000)

"Contemporary American literature is already plagued with souls murmuring of suburban boredom, and it is hard to imagine what new insight into the bourgeois mentality...Walser can provide. His navel-gazing might appear to be soul-searching, a way to get to the bottom of the evasive self, but in fact it is really little more than staring at nothing."
Bookforum - Aleksandar Hemon

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