Robert Walser
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| Title | : | Jakob von Gunten |
| Author | : | Robert Walser |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special 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.Point Books Toward 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 anΗ 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
Jakob von GuntenRobert WalserJakob von Gunten dissects the remote and vulnerable regions of human brain, the dramatic tensions between the fluctuating demons of inner self and the savage realities of outer world carves out an enigmatic reality which pierces your heart and thrusts yourself through the crests and troughs of an assorted compendium of human emotions. Written during a period which transformed German fiction, when refined, compact elementary forms of prose were taking shape, when
Çok garip bir roman 'Jakob von Gunten'. Okuru ters köşelerde döndürüp duran ironilerin dans ettiği bir anlatı. Karakterimiz Jakob'un kutsi amacında kendini gösteren bu ironi (yoksa ironi değil mi) bir süre sonra olayların akışına da sirayet ediyor. Hakkında bir şeyler söylemenin zor olduğu ama içinde bir sürü cümlenin özenle çizildiği ve saklandığı bir kitap olduğundan; kitabı anlatmak yerine -fikirsel bir metin istiyorsanız şayet- direkt okumanızı tavsiye ederim. Umarım seversiniz. Benim kafam
Jakob 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
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
Here's the cover of the 1983 Vintage Books trade paperback I have (154 pages). Full review to come.
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