# Jakob von Gunten

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- Book: [Jakob von Gunten](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-walser/jakob-von-gunten) ([Jakob von Gunten.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-walser/jakob-von-gunten.md))
- Authors: [Robert Walser](https://www.bookquiver.com/robert-walser), [Christopher Middleton](https://www.bookquiver.com/christopher-middleton)
- Publisher: nyrb_classics
- ISBN: 978-09-4032-221-9
- Pages: 200
- Published: 1999-09-30
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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,...