Jakob von Gunten

Name: Jakob von Gunten
Author: Robert Walser

by Robert Walser

Young student documents his education at institute for servants

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Robert Walser

Swiss author whose quietly radical short fiction and novels have gained increasing recognition as among the most distinctive contributions to German-language modernism. Jakob von Gunten is his masterpiece.

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