Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1788164504
ISBN-13
9781788164504
Edition
Main - Classic Edition
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd
Imprint
Serpent's Tail
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 19th, 2020
Print length
192 Pages
Weight
146 grams
Dimensions
13.00 x 19.70 x 1.30 cms
Product Classification:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Ksh 1,800.00
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Robert Walser's great masterpiece, reissued with a foreword by J. M. Coetzee.
The Institut Benjamenta: a school of humility for the unambitious. The young Jakob von Gunten arrives at this most curious of educational establishments with the goal of becoming ''something very small and subordinate later in life'', a goal he sets about achieving with laconic dedication and wry detachment.Irony, scepticism, absurd images and sensations, disconcerting humour, minor humiliations and minute observations mingle to form one of the signature works of twentieth century fiction. First published in 1908, a forerunner to and key influence on the work of writers such as Franz Kafka and Thomas Bernhard, Robert Walser''s masterpiece is a paean to infinitesimal unimportance, a celebration of the marginal life that is the life of the mind.
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