false <![CDATA[Jakob Von Gunten]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172284266m/160316.jpg 513275 16 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 <i>Jakob von Gunten</i> 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. 2004083 book 1970 Jakob von Gunten (New York Review Books Classics) total:260|5:121|4:88|3:33|2:16|1:2| 260 1090 455 48 513275 0940322218 9780940322219 222 44 Jakob von Gunten (New York Review Books Classics) 4.19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256023944m/513275.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/513275.Jakob_von_Gunten 5 3 false Mon Dec 17 00:25:33 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 20 23:01:53 -0800 2007 more...]]> 513275 0940322218 9780940322219 222 44 Jakob von Gunten (New York Review Books Classics) 4.19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256023944m/513275.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/513275.Jakob_von_Gunten 5 2 false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 06 12:19:42 -0700 2008 Tue May 06 12:29:18 -0700 2008 more...]]> 513275 0940322218 9780940322219 222 44 Jakob von Gunten (New York Review Books Classics) 4.19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256023944m/513275.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/513275.Jakob_von_Gunten 3 1 false Tue Jul 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 08:33:43 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 09:45:17 -0700 2009

I even stuck out my tongue, in a quite childish and schoolboyish way, and then I couldn’t help laughing. I think I’ve never laughed so much in all my life. Very quietly, of course. It was the purest repressed laugh imaginable…


At such moments I’m simply grand.

— p. 139

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While in theory a book about a bourgeois alderman's son running away from home to subject himself to a purely ...more...]]> 513275 0940322218 9780940322219 222 44 Jakob von Gunten (New York Review Books Classics) 4.19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256023944m/513275.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/513275.Jakob_von_Gunten 5 1 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Dec 09 08:16:36 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 09 08:20:12 -0800 2007 513275 0940322218 9780940322219 222 44 Jakob von Gunten (New York Review Books Classics) 4.19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256023944m/513275.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/513275.Jakob_von_Gunten 5 0 false Tue Feb 10 22:52:27 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 21:56:12 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 22:52:27 -0800 2009 more...]]> 513275 0940322218 9780940322219 222 44 Jakob von Gunten (New York Review Books Classics) 4.19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256023944m/513275.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/513275.Jakob_von_Gunten 5 1 false Wed Jul 04 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jan 27 19:20:50 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 27 19:21:32 -0800 2008 513275 0940322218 9780940322219 222 44 Jakob von Gunten (New York Review Books Classics) 4.19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256023944m/513275.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/513275.Jakob_von_Gunten 3 2 false Sat Feb 21 17:10:20 -0800 2009 Sun Jun 07 01:37:21 -0700 2009 Jakob von Gunten. As with all projects from this duo of stop-motion animators, the end product to their artistic endevours, even in the cases when the projects are inspired from an outside source like literature or poetry, may as be consid...more...]]> 513275 0940322218 9780940322219 222 44 Jakob von Gunten (New York Review Books Classics) 4.19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256023944m/513275.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/513275.Jakob_von_Gunten 4 0 false Mon Jan 05 13:02:03 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 13:02:45 -0800 2009 more...]]> 513275 0940322218 9780940322219 222 44 Jakob von Gunten (New York Review Books Classics) 4.19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256023944m/513275.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/513275.Jakob_von_Gunten 5 0 false Thu Oct 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 06 07:11:53 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 09 13:43:19 -0700 2008 more...]]> 513275 0940322218 9780940322219 222 44 Jakob von Gunten (New York Review Books Classics) 4.19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256023944m/513275.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/513275.Jakob_von_Gunten 5 0 false Thu Sep 11 18:32:02 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 09 19:59:36 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 11 18:32:02 -0700 2008 more...]]> 513275 0940322218 9780940322219 222 44 Jakob von Gunten (New York Review Books Classics) 4.19 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256023944m/513275.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/513275.Jakob_von_Gunten 3 0 false Sat May 03 08:02:41 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 25 08:30:37 -0700 2008
The titular character is a runaway blue-blood, who being the mischievous contrarian he ceaselessly claims that he is, enrolls himself in a sketchy school for servants.

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