Jakob von Gunten - Robert Walser ephemera the cruel garden

the cruel garden

they always choose the company of beasts

This book collects the writings of a radical group of writers close to Paris Surrealism--principally René Daumal and Roger Gilbert-Lecomte--as published in their now legendary magazine

176 pages  / ISBN 9782379641053 / EPA Editions (import)

Jakob von Gunten - Robert Walser ephemera the cruel gardenJakob von Gunten by Robert Walser ISBN 9780940322219 paperback from NYRB Classics My favorite book. *** 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, as well as four novels, of which Jakob von Gunten is widely recognized as the finest. The book is a young man's inquisitive and irreverent