Jakob von Gunten - Robert Walser

Jakob von Gunten - Walser, Robert

Robert Walser's great masterpiece, reissued with a foreword by J. M. Coetzee.

Jakob von Gunten (Robert Walser)(Brožovaná)

Jakob von Gunten ist der dritte, meistdiskutierte und avantgardistischste Roman Walsers. Er schrieb ihn 1908 in Berlin. Drei Jahre zuvor hatte der Autor eine Dienerschule besucht, deren eigentümliches Milieu er auf das im Roman dargestellte Knabeninstitut Benjamenta...

Jakob von Gunten (Robert Walser)(Brožovaná)

The Institut Benjamenta: a school of humility for the unambitious. The young Jakob von Gunten arrives at this most curious of educational establishments with the goal of becoming ''something very small and subordinate later in life'', a goal he sets about achieving...

Jakob von Gunten - Robert Walser

Jakob von Gunten - Robert Walser The Institut Benjamenta: a school of humility for the unambitious. The young Jakob von Gunten arrives at this most curious of educational establishments with the goal of becoming ''something very small and subordinate later in life'', a...

Jakob von Gunten - Walser, Robert

Jakob von Gunten (Robert Walser)(Brožovaná)

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...