num_pages: 164
description: 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.
language: German
title: Jakob von Gunten. Ein Tagebuch.
titlecomplete: Jakob von Gunten. Ein Tagebuch.
characters: Jakob von Gunten, Herr Benjamenta
genres: Classics, European Literature, Short Stories, Novels, German Literature, Germany, 20th Century, Literature, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 5082
publisher: Suhrkamp