Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1995)

Kitap : Jakob Von Gunten

Yazar : Robert Walser

Yayınevi : Doğan Kitap

Basım Tarihi : 2007

Sayfa Sayısı :136

Boyut : 13.5 x 19.5 cm

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Kitap link : https://www.kitapyurdu.com/

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Konu: Kitap, Jakob von Gunten'in günlüğüdür. Jakob'un yeni geldiği bir okulda ve çevrede kendi sosyal sınıfından olmayan insanları dikkatle gözlemleyip ayrı ayrı hepsinin davranışlarını irdelemesi, kişilikleri hakkında kendine göre isabetli yorumlarda bulunması ve daha da ileri giderek gelecekte nasıl bir konumda olacaklarına dair tahminlerde bulunmasını izleyen süreçte aynı zamanda kendi kimliğinin de yapılanmasını adım adım izliyoruz. Tüm bunları okurken ruhumuzun okşanmasi ise Jakob'un hümanist kişiliğinin bize yaptığı bir güzellik... (vulnificus)

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Book: Jakob Von Gunten

Writer : Robert Walser

Publisher : NYRB Classics

Publish Date : 1999

Dimensions: 5x 0.6 x 8 inches

Pages: 200

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Book link: https://www.amazon.com/

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Plot: The book is a young man's inquisitive and irreverent account of life in what turns out to be the most uncanny of schools. It is the work of an outsider artist, a writer of uncompromising originality and disconcerting humor, whose beautiful sentences have the simplicity and strangeness of a painting by Henri Rousseau.

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Film : Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1995)

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Yönetmen-Director : Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay

Senaryo-Writers : Robert Walser, Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay, Alan Passes

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Oyuncular-Stars : Mark Rylance – Jakob, Alice Krige - Lisa Benjamenta, Gottfried John - Herr Benjamenta, Daniel Smith – Kraus, Joseph Alessi – Pepino, Jonathan Stone – Hebling, César Sarachu – Inigo, Peter Lovstrom – Jorgenson, Uri Roodner – Schilinski, Peter Whitfield - Null

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Plot : Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) to learn to become a servant. With seven other men, he studies under Lisa: absurd lessons of movement, drawing circles, and servility. He asks for a better room. No other students arrive and none leave for employment. Johannes is unhappy, imperious, and detached from the school's operation. Lisa is beautiful, at first tightly controlled, then on the verge of breakdown. There's a whiff of incest. Jakob is drawn to Lisa, and perhaps she to him. As winter sets in, she becomes catatonic. Things get worse; Johannes notes that all this has happened since Jakob came. Is there any cause and effect? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>

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Film IMDB link : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113429/

Film Link : https://www.sinemalar.com/film/74188/institute-benjamenta-or-this-dream-people-call-human-life

Film Link : http://www.sinematurk.com/film/31600-institute-benjamenta-or-this-dream-people-call-human-life/