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Author: (Switzerland) Walser (Walser, R.) Author, Fan Jie Review and Translation
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: A Series of Modern and Contemporary World Literature. This book mainly consists of the novel Jakob von Gunten, the story A Walk, and several other novels and essays. The novel Jakob was published in 1908 and is a semi-autobiographical diary novel written by Walser based on his brief experience at a servant school near Berlin. It pioneered the modern German novel genre, sweeping away the old habits of German novels being obscure and lengthy, bringing freshness and timelessness, and showcasing the inner world of modern people. Walser once said in his lifetime that Jakob was his favorite work because literary imagery was fully embodied in this novel. In Jakob, the setting is a dream. Whether writing himself as a small soldier in Napoleon's army or as a marshal, whether exploring the weakness beneath authority with a voyeuristic mindset or infiltrating a woman's heart with the cunning of a child, the novel always pretends to be profound in its teasing language, occasionally tearing off its mask, revealing a true face that remains humorous. The truth of romantic humor lies in cruel self-mockery. The mystery and traps set in the dream create suspense and promises but firmly fail to fulfill them—this is Walser's brilliance, and the ending is unexpected. Jakob is a shortcut to Walser's world, leaving readers with a sense of the illusion of a story but more of a game of hide-and-seek with them. Like A Walk and other works by Walser, this book was translated into various important European languages such as English, French, Polish, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Russian, and Hungarian as early as the 1970s and was adapted into two film versions in 1971 (West Germany) and 1995 (United Kingdom/Germany).