| Author |
Walser, Robert, 1878-1956.
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| Publication |
New York : New York Review Books, 2014, 1999.
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| Description |
xxii, 176 pages ; 21 cm |
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1 online resource. |
| Call # |
eBOOK |
| Note |
"Number 10"--Cover. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
FICTION / Coming of Age.
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Fiction. |
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German fiction -- 20th century -- Translations into English.
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Teenage boys -- Germany -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Electronic books. |
| Addl. Author |
Middleton, Christopher, 1926-2015.
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OverDrive, Inc.
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| Addl. Title |
Jakob von Gunten. English
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| Related To |
Print version: |
| ISBN |
9781590178188 (electronic bk.) |
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1590178181 (electronic bk.) |
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