Jacob von Gunten

Jakob Von Gunten

【Editor's Recommendation】
⭐Robert Walser, the founder of modern German literature, presents the most famous novel in a new light!
He is praised as "a walker who missed time", "an observer of subtleties", and "a poet whose fate is like snow".
He is a buried genius writer who has been persistently writing books and biographies for the little people throughout his life.
He is as famous as Musil and Kafka, has a profound influence, and is posthumously recognized as the founder of modern German literature.
Robert Walser - "Berlin Trilogy" + Selected Stories, Directly Translated from German, New Translation Published Together!
⭐Your favorite authors love Robert Walser!
Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, Hermann Hesse, Stefan Zweig, Thomas Bernhard, Elias Canetti, Winfried Sebald, Martin Walser, Susan Sontag, JM Coetzee, Peter Handke… all highly recommended!
⭐An ode to escaping from civilization, a confession from the heart of a man destined to “accomplish nothing” I studied in a servants’ school, where I could not learn much;
The only lessons we can enjoy are those that engrave patience and obedience into our minds.
I was destined to achieve nothing great - I was confused, wandering the streets, analyzing myself and everything around me in my diary.
Perhaps staying away from a thoughtful life and becoming a zero is the best destination.
"You know, Jacob, it's wonderful to escape from civilization."
The third of the "Berlin Trilogy," this prophetic work, imbued with Walser's life experience, is based on Walser's real experiences at the Servant School and reflects the evolution of the author's literary thought:
From escaping from the workstation and wandering through life, to escaping from civilization and staying away from the hustle and bustle——
Just like his secluded life in a sanatorium after being ridiculed and denigrated in the "world of ideas".
Designed by renowned young designer Xihe, this small-format, square-spine hardcover features a cool, mountain-inspired design. The spine is finished with a textured, four-color Yuhua paper. The overlapping peaks and ridges evoke the natural environment surrounding the Swiss author.
The cold and solemn cover is like the consistent tone of German literature, like making fire in the snow, with a cold face and a warm heart;
Cotton-white Yuhua paper cover, 110*185 square spine hardcover, elegant and compact, worry-free when going out.
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【Celebrity Recommendation】
If Walser had a hundred thousand readers, the world would be a better place.
—Hermann Hesse It is in the works of Robert Walser that we first notice an extraordinary, indescribable sense of sparseness. This emptiness is weight, this confusion is perseverance—this is the fact that the reader can think of when reading Walser's works.
——Walter Benjamin Walser's works are full of tenderness, fantasy, freedom and rich moral connotations, which remind people of those non-utilitarian and lazy years.
—Robert Musil: The moral core of Walser's art lies in the resistance to power and domination... Walserian virtues can only be found in the most sophisticated and elegant works of art. He is the Paul Klee of words, the good-tempered Beckett, a truly brilliant and heartbreaking writer.
—Susan Sontag How can one understand a writer tormented by shadows yet who ignites the softest light on every page, a writer who creates humorous sketches out of the purest despair, a writer who almost always writes about the same things but never repeats himself, a writer who stands firmly on the ground yet is always lost in the clouds? Walser has always been my constant companion.
—Winfried Sebald Walser’s style is difficult to imitate because it hangs over an abyss that no one has yet been able to penetrate…But Walser’s characters, with a certain a priori balance, smoothly walk on the edge of the abyss and almost dance on it.
As a literary figure, Jakob von Gunten is unprecedented. He delights in self-criticism and self-deprecation, with qualities reminiscent of the protagonist of Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground and Rousseau in The Confessions. However, as Marthe Robert, Walser's first French translator, pointed out, Jakob also evokes the heroic image of traditional German folk tales—he confronts the giant's castle, overcomes all odds, and ultimately triumphs. Barnabas and Jeremias, the two "assistants" of surveyor K. in Kafka's The Castle, are a direct descendant of Jakob.
——JM Coetzee "Jakob von Gunten" is one of the works that changed the world of German-language fiction. It is different from any other German-language novel or European novel. It is unique.
—Christopher Middleton (German literature translator and researcher)
One of the greatest German-language writers of the 20th century.
—Juan José Sale
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【Content Introduction】
There is not much to learn here, the teachers are scarce,
And we, the boys of Benjamenta School, will end up with nothing,
In other words, each of us can only play a small and humble role in the days to come.
Maybe underneath all that I am is a completely ordinary person.
But it's also possible that I have noble blood flowing in my veins. I don't know.
There is only one thing I am sure of: in the future, I will become a lovable round zero.
I will stand up straight and wait for the orders of those pretentious, uneducated and vulgar young people.
It is also possible that I will become a beggar or simply die.

2023-11-01

广西师范大学出版社

wild spring

232

9787559862310