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Jakob von Gunten by Robert Walser is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Jakob von Gunten about?
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.
Who reads Jakob von Gunten?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Robert Walser
- Publisher
- New York Review Books
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Rating
- 4.02 / 5 (39 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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