Jakob von Gunten
Jakob von Gunten
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Published:
19 March, 2020
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781788164504 |
| ISBN10 | 1788164504 |
| Number Of Pages | 192 |
| Item Weight | 140 g |
| Product Dimensions | 130 x 196 x 16 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Profile Books Ltd |
| Format | paperback |
| Edition | Main - Classic Edition |
Media Reviews
A clairvoyant of the small ... Walser has been my constant companion -- W. G. Sebald
If he had hundred thousand readers, the world would be a better place -- Hermann Hesse, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
A truly wonderful, heartbreaking writer -- Susan Sontag
An essential writer of our time -- Elias Canetti, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
His greatest novel ... a strange mix of exuberance and submission, lyrical abandon and self-abnegation -- Ben Lerner * New Yorker *
An effortlessly classy writer, as elegant and as thoughtful as Joseph Roth, he is also engagingly excitable, his cry-outs to the reader reminiscent of the young Dostoevsky. * Big Issue *
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Author's Bio
Robert Walser was born in Switzerland in 1878 and worked as a bank clerk before becoming a writer. In 1929 he was diagnosed with catatonic schizophrenia and was admitted to Waldau psychiatric hospital. In 1933 he was transferred against his will to the sanitorium at Herisau, where he gave up on writing. Walser died there on Christmas Day, 1956.