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- ↑ Ahmadian, M. and Hanif, M. (November 2018). "An Existential Crisis: the Significance of the Opening and Concluding Passages of Robert Walser's Jakob Von Gunten". Forum for World Literature Studies. 10 (3): 463–472.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ Coetzee, J. M. (2 November 2000). "The Genius of Robert Walser". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 29 May 2016.
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