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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

Jakob von Gunten Paperback | Pages: 176 pages

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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.

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Original Title:	Jakob von Gunten
ISBN:	0940322218 (ISBN13: 9780940322219)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Jakob von Gunten, Herr Benjamenta

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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

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

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

Imagine the school scenes from Gormenghast rewritten by Kafka and you'll have a good idea of the atmosphere of Jakob von Gunten, a short and stodgy philosophical fable of a very Germanic kind. It's easy to see why Kafka and Hesse were such fans; I wasn't quite so convinced, although I can understand why so many people love it.The novel consists of a journal written by the title character, who has enrolled in a school for servants (based on Walser's own experience at a valet school in Berlin).

I really, really hated this book. Jakob von Gunten (the character) is the most dull, fey, irritating, and obtuse example of a first-person narrator I have yet encountered in my literary sojourns. I wanted to track him down and to bludgeon him to death.

How does one begin to write even an on-the-fly review of such a novel, one that should be experienced as a series of deceptively simple vignettes in the young life of the titular character and be relished as Walser carries one along with Jakob's singular voice? Jakob von Gunten is also a difficult novel from which to quote given how the reader manages to catch small glimpses of how the narrative voice will develop and evolve, something that this reviewer would not wish to ruin for any future

As I was reading through Jakob von Gunten I wondered what genre it belonged to. Was it some kind of memoir? Was it a coming of age story? Was it a love story? Was it perhaps something totally new, a genre I'd never met before? Or was it rather something utterly ancient, as ancient as the stories of the Old Testament. Ancient, yes, that was the predominant feeling I was left with at the end, though the writing has nothing biblical about it whatsoever being extremely lighthearted and jolly in tone