Robert Walser
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| Title | : | Jakob von Gunten |
| Author | : | Robert Walser |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 176 pages |
| Published | : | 1999 by New York Review Books Classics (first published 1909) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. European Literature. German Literature. Classics. Literature |
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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 and four novels, of which Jakob von Gunten is widely recognized as the finest. It tells the story of a seventeen-year-old runaway from an old family who enrolls in a school for servants. The Institute, run by the domineering Herr Benjamenta and his beautiful but ailing sister, is a deeply mysterious place: the faculty lies asleep in a single room. The students though subject to fierce discipline, come and go at will. Jakob, an irrepressibly subversive presence, keeps a journal in which he records his quirky impressions of the school as well as his own quickly changing enthusiasms and uncertainties, deliberations and dreams. And in the end, as the Institute itself dissolves around him like a dream, he steps out boldly to explore still-unimagined worlds.Details Books In Favor Of Jakob von Gunten
| Original Title: | Jakob von Gunten |
| ISBN: | 0940322218 (ISBN13: 9780940322219) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Jakob von Gunten, Herr Benjamenta |
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I've been thinking a lot about institutions/institutional living lately due to having recently finished two books back-to-back where the primary action takes place in one. The other book being Leonora Carrington's The Hearing Trumpet which had a certain resonance with this book despite being significantly different. Neither has quite the traditional take on institutions, a word that, for me, tends to conjure up images of Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Both books have anJakob von Gunten è uno di quei libri la cui capacità di suggerire interpretazioni è infinita. è il romanzo preferito di Kafka, che lo leggeva ridendo di gusto ai suoi amici, e uno dei più misteriosi libri che abbia mai letto. la storia è quella di un giovane discendente di una famiglia aristocratica che arriva in un istituto dove si insegna l'umiltà e la sottomissione. solo chi riuscirà a sottomettersi nel maggior grado di purezza, a essere uno "zero rotondo come una palla" riuscirà ad adempiere
Here's the cover of the 1983 Vintage Books trade paperback I have (154 pages). Full review to come.
heeded a thankfully persistent whisper of walser walser walser and fell hard. i'd heard the gossipy parts: how kafka dug him, how he lived his final years in a madhouse, how he died on a long walk in the snow, how he wrote in a pencilled hand so small that people thought it was a secret code but it wasn't--it was just very very small.i'd tried THE ASSISTANT, which is recently translated but earlier walser and could see the charm, but i was prejudiced against how its proto-modern style took too
When I see a painting in a gallery or museum I avoid at all costs the name of the artist until I have experienced and been impacted by the work itself. It is a task in self discipline not to peek at the plate where the artists name is engraved waiting to create swathes of widening black bordered edges, its brushed strokes leaving my preconceived ideas, my self imposed biases, concerning the artist, the genre, thetheshrinking and distorting of the painting out of its context, paling beyond
Η ιστορία ενός κοινωνικού επαναστάτη, του Γιάκομπ Φον Γκούντεν, ο οποίος αποφασίζει να "απαρνηθεί" την ευγενική του καταγωγή και τα πλούτη του και να εγγραφεί στο Ινστιτούτο Μπενζαμέντα. Ένα Ινστιτούτο με περίεργους οικότροφους αλλά και ακόμα πιο περίεργους καθηγητές και ιδιοκτήτες. Εκεί όντας μαθητευόμενος θα αναθεωρήσει κάποιες από τις βασικές του αρχές αλλά και παράλληλα θα βυθιστεί σε έναν περίεργο κόσμο όπου το όνειρο μπλέκεται με την πραγματικότητα....Σε πρώτο πρόσωπο η γραφή του Βάλζερ
I would wish it on no one to be me.Only I am capable of bearing myself.To know so much, to have seen so much, andTo say nothing, just about nothing.Written by Robert Walser, as quoted by J.M. Coetzee in The Genius of Robert Walser-----------------------------------------------------Those dates there at the top of this review tell me that I took an inexplicable two and a half weeks to read this novella of a mere 164 pages. At the back of my edition I find a schematic overview of Walser's
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