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Read & download Jakob von Gunten Ein Tagebuch Robert Walser Ë 2 Download Read ß PDF, DOC, TXT, eBook or Kindle ePUB free Ë Robert Walser Interiores eso sí Pero ¿ué ventaja se obtiene de ellos ¿A uién dan de comer las conuistas interiores» Así empieza Jakob von Gunten la tercera novela de Robert Walser la más amada por el autor pero también la más discutida e innovadora escrita en 1909 en Berlín tres años después de haber dejado el Instituto donde se había educado Y el g uite an oddity it took me a while to decide whether I liked it or not it s uite abstract and the protagonist isn t someone that I would immediately warm to The novel is written in the first person Jakob is from a good family with money and possibly titled who decides to go to the big city Berlin and join a school for servants much as Walser did called the Benjamenta Institute The only teaching members we meet are the Principal and his sisterThe book is in diary form and consists of Jakob s reflections and his philosophy and also something of the philosophy of being a servant and being invisible with appropriate humility Jakob is highly self critical sometimes irritatingly so and there were times I was reminded of Uriah Heep Walser s influences are not easy to pin down His intensely self critical nature has been compared to Rousseau in the Confessions and to a Dostoyevskian character One of his translators has argued that Jakob has some similarities to characters in German folk tales Brothers Grimm the hero who braves the castle and wins the day against the odds But victory is bittersweet because at the end Jakob is still back in the real world Kafka was a fan and it is easy to see why and to see shades of The Castle in particular Jakob s odd combination of humility and arrogance and his philosophy sometimes feel unsettling and contradictory there are clear Nietzschean references and yet Walser is also analysing the middle classbourgeois psyche which will have such an influence on German history in the early twentieth century The elevation of the banal and the ultimate discovery by Jakob that at the heart it is all hollow and meaningless the mysterious inner chambers are not all they seem neither are the Benjamenta sThe foreshadowing of Nazism in characters like Kraus is startling as is the amused tolerance of those in authority there is a level of madness about it but it is so simple at times amusing but also sad given Walser s later descent into madness Pretty much nothing happens on the surface but Jakob has a hard time living with himself A later poem by Walser sums it up I would wish it on no one to be meOnly I am capable of bearing myselfTo know so much to have seen so much andTo say nothing just about nothing

Read & download Jakob von Gunten Ein Tagebuch Robert Walser Ë 2 Download Read ß PDF, DOC, TXT, eBook or Kindle ePUB free Ë Robert Walser «Auí se aprende muy poco falta personal docente y nosotros los muchachos del Instituto Benjamenta jamás llegaremos a nada es decir ue el día de mañana seremos todos gente muy modesta y subordinada La enseñanza ue nos imparten consiste básicamente en inculcarnos paciencia y obediencia dos cualidades ue prometen escaso o ningún éxito Éxitos As I was reading through Jakob von Gunten I wondered what genre it belonged to Was it some kind of memoir Was it a coming of age story Was it a love story Was it perhaps something totally new a genre I d never met before Or was it rather something utterly ancient as ancient as the stories of the Old Testament Ancient yes that was the predominant feeling I was left with at the end though the writing has nothing biblical about it whatsoever being extremely lighthearted and jolly in tone which is one of the many paradoxes of this short novel In fact Jacob the narrator speaks constantly in paradoxes he tells of a school where no learning takes place and of a feared principal who is really rather meek Jacob sees beauty in the oddest of places even in the idiosyncrasies of headboy Kraus I do like people who get angry Kraus gets angry on the slightest pretext That is so beautiful so noble The sinner must always be faced with the person outraged or else something would be missing The mumbling of a grumbler is lovelier to me than the murmuring of a woodland stream Jacob expounds on the virtues of compliance to rules in one breath while telling us that he loves running on the stairs in the next To be supposed not to do something is so alluring sometimes that one can t help doing it Therefore I love so deeply every compulsion because it allows me to take joy in what is illicit If there were no commandments no duties in the world I would die starve be crippled by boredom I provoke the frowning law to anger a little afterwards I make the effort to pacify it Although it was written than one hundred years ago each word each sentence in this slim book has the freshness of new snow though perhaps new snow on which a happy dog has left a yellow stain because Jacob s sparkling words are always sprinkled with little ironies Sly and knowing people are to me an unspeakable abomination How nice Peter is in precisely this point His being tall so tall that he could crack in two is good but even better is the goodness of heart which keeps whispering to him that he is a cavalier and has the looks of a noble rake The entire book is a parade of seeming contradictions Nothing can excite me so deeply as the sight and smell of what is good and just Jacob tells us before revealing that nothing pleases me than to give a completely false image of myself to people for whom I have made a place in my heartThus for example I imagine that it would be unspeakably lovely to die with the terrible knowledge that I have offended whomsoever I love the most and have filled them with bad opinions of me Nobody will understand that or only someone who can sense tremblings of beauty in defiance Those tremblings of beauty in defiance reminded me of the biblical story of Lucifer before the Fall whose heart according to Ezekiel was lifted up because of thy beauty but who had become corrupted by reason of thy brightness I imagined Jacob as a latter day Lucifer shining very brightly among his duller fellows But unlike Lucifer he succeeds in seducing the Father figure of his world completley and causes him to lose his bearings so that instead of rejecting Jacob and casting him out he casts out all the good pupilsangels instead even the rule abiding and very fundamentalist Archangel KrausSo the story made me think about what the JudeoChristianIslamic world would be like if we d never had a Lucifer figure to demonise and if the deity had presented itself as just as human and weak as the rest of usImageview spoilerWilliam Blake s Lucifer before the Fall hide spoiler

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Jakob himself who embodies a relentless pursuit of experiences an outward momentum which accelerates unchecked couples with a seemingly dissonant imperative of repressing the same dulling and uashing all sense data and finishing with the non too subtle juxtaposition between uotidian and otherworldly in place names eg the monotonous and heterogenous atmosphere of the Benjamenta Institute for servants vs the sumptuous mysterious world of the inner chambers And everything in between Which in this case is a uintessential nothing Jakob having no plot and unencumbered with background details presents as an albedo scene sparce on props against which the klieglight carves out in microscopic details the dynamics of life through a narrative of character studyJakob is a duality juxtaposed in bilateral relations with other characters where yet another geodesic poses duality this time in the pair off between Jakob and another character Thus are the scenes in this novel enacted in a seuence of Siamese links between Jakob and AN Other Jakob and Kraus Jakob and hisbrother Jakob and Herr Benjamenta Jakob and fraulein Benjamenta a rotational pairing of opposites diametrically opposed Throughout this Jakob is by no means a constant a uintessential everyman he subtly adapts to each pairings idiosyncrasies to fulfil the role of subservient or lord it Thus in the unholy triefecta between the Cocteau an siblings and himself he slithers between sub and dom with remarkable dexterityWalser explores coupledom thus as a techniue to illustrate the multi layers of the human condition each pairing speaks to life s permutations whether friendship love homoerotic love duty or even death Each relationship is a refractory thread which opens up a new window of waltenshuung How does this feel Like the universe has been stretched out from pole to pole wrenched out of its non euclydic slumber and prostrated belly up on the examining table for the mother of all post mortems If there is mysterium it 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