Rent Jakob von Gunten

Synopsis

The Swiss writer Robert Walser (1878-1956) is one of the quiet geniuses of 20th-century literature. Largely self-taught and altogether indifferent to worldly success, Walser ended his life in an insane asylum, but left a body of work that was admired by such contemporaries as Hermann Hessc and Franz Kafka. Walser is an outsider artist whose beautiful and capricious sentences have the simplicity and strangeness of a painting by Henri Roussean account of mysterious initiation.

View descriptions at Amazon.com