Jakob von Gunten
By Robert Walser
Introduction by Christopher Middleton
Translated by Christopher Middleton
By Robert Walser
Introduction by Christopher Middleton
Translated by Christopher Middleton
By Robert Walser
Introduction by Christopher Middleton
Translated by Christopher Middleton
By Robert Walser
Introduction by Christopher Middleton
Translated by Christopher Middleton
Category: Literary Fiction
Category: Literary Fiction
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$16.95
Sep 30, 1999 | ISBN 9780940322219
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Mar 05, 2014 | ISBN 9781590178188
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Praise
“As a literary character, Jakob von Gunten is without precedent. In the pleasure he takes in picking away at himself he has something of Dostoevsky’s Underground Man and, behind him, of the Jean-Jacques Rousseau of theConfessions. But—as Walser’s first French translator, Marthe Robert, pointed out—there is in Jakob, too, something of the hero of the traditional German folk tale, of the lad who braves the castle of the giant and triumphs against all odds. Franz Kafka, early in his career, admired Walser’s work (Max Brod records with what delight Kafka would read Walser’s humorous sketches aloud). Barnabas and Jeremias, Surveyor K.’s demonically obstructive “assistants” in The Castle, have Jakob as their prototype.” — J.M. Coetzee
Wonderful . . . eccentric.
— The New York Sun
The moral core of Walser’s art is the refusal of power; of domination…. Walser’s virtues are those of the most mature, most civilized art. He is a truly wonderful, heartbreaking writer.
— Susan Sontag
If he had a hundred thousand readers, the world would be a better place.
— Hermann Hesse
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