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Author: Robert Walser
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Publication Date: 2003-01-01
Features: Modern and Contemporary World Literature Series. This book mainly consists of the novel Jakob von Gunten, the story A Walk, and several other short stories and essays. The novel Jakob was completed in 1908, written by Walser based on his brief experiences at a servants' school near Berlin. It pioneered a new form of modern German fiction, sweeping away the old habits of German novels being obscure and overly lengthy, bringing freshness and enduring charm, and revealing the inner world of modern people. Walser once said in his lifetime that Jakob was his favorite work, as literary imagery was fully embodied in this novel. In Jakob, the scene is a dream. Whether he writes himself as a low-ranking soldier in Napoleon's army or as a marshal, or explores the frailty of authority through a voyeur's perspective, or delves into 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 true essence of romantic humor lies in cruel self-mockery. The mysteries and traps, the suspense and promises set in the dream, but firmly unfulfilled—they are Walser's brilliance. The ending is unexpected. Jakob is a shortcut to Walser's world, it leaves the reader with a sense of the illusion of a story, but more with a game of hide-and-seek with the reader. Like A Walk and other works by Walser, they were translated into various major European languages such as English, French, Polish, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Russian, and Hungarian as early as the 1970s and 1980s. They were also adapted into films twice, in 1971 (West Germany) and 1995 (United Kingdom/Germany).