{"product_id":"jakob-von-gunten-paperback","title":"Jakob Von Gunten - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Walser\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eChristopher Middleton\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eChristopher Middleton\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003eJakob von Gunten\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Walser (1878-1956) was born into a German speaking family in Biel, Switzerland. He left school at fourteen and led a wandering, precarious existence while writing his poems, novels, and vast numbers of the \"prose pieces\" that became his hallmark. In 1933 he was confined to a sanatorium, which marked the end of his writing career. Among Walser's works available in English are \u003ci\u003eBerlin Stories\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJakob von Gunten\u003c\/i\u003e (both available as NYRB classics), \u003ci\u003eThirty Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Walk\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Tanners\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMicroscripts\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Assistant\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Robber\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMasquerade and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cbr\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSpeaking to the Rose: Writings, 1912-1932\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChristopher Middleton (b. 1926) is a poet, essayist, and translator. He teaches Germanic languages and literature at the University of Texas at Austin and has translated numerous works, including \u003ci\u003eJakob von Gunten\u003c\/i\u003e by Robert Walser.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.39 x 8.08 x 5.04 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 30, 1999\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47401697247410,"sku":"9780940322219","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/fe73203a752a25c753b4780d11ea7230.webp?v=1778098818","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/jakob-von-gunten-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}