Background
Born on November 6, 1880, in Klagenfort, Austria, Musil was the only child of an engineer; his father was knighted for his service under the Austro-Hungarian monarchy.
(This collection of exploratory pieces, short stories, and...)
This collection of exploratory pieces, short stories, and reflections was originally published in Zurich in 1936. It was the last volume Robert Musil published before his sudden death in 1942. Musil had begun to fathom the impossibility of com- pleting his monumental masterpiece The Man Without Qualities and this volume reveals a radically different aspect of his work. Musil observes a flys tragic struggle with flypaper, the laughter of a horse; he peers through microscopes and telescopes, dissecting both large and small. Musils quest for the essential is a voyage into the minute.
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Robert Musil is ranked alongside Marcel Proust and James Joyce for his monumental, unfinished novel, The Man Without Qualities. His Diaries, a distillation of forty-three years of material, are valuable in a number of ways: as a first-hand historical document of life in twentieth-century central Europe, as a kind of unwitting autobiography of a great novelist, and as a writer's notebook that details the moods of artistic adventure.Readers will gain keen insights into Musil's passage from scientist, to soldier, to novelist, in honest passages that reveal the man in all his humor, ambition, frustration, and transcendence.
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The Austrian Robert Musil (1880-1942), a central figure in the modernist movement, is known primarily for his magnum opus, The Man Without Qualities. But here, in these five stories stories as crucial to the understanding of The Man Without Qualities (and Musil's immense literary influence and significance) as Joyce's Dubliners is to Ulysses, he displays another face, one that is by turn extravagant, sensual, mystical, and autobiographical. As Frank Kermode notes in his preface, these stories "are elaborate attempts to use fiction for its true purposes, the discovery and regeneration of the human world." In that redefinition of fiction, Robert Musil's name is writ large. Five Women has gone through three printings as a Godine Nonpareil book. We are now proud to reissue it as the newest edition to the Verba Mundi library of modern world literature.
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Robert Musil's Thought Flights vividly evokes the secrets, challenges, and mundanities of interwar life in cosmopolitan Vienna and Berlin. The texts presented here have been selected by translator Genese Grill from Musil's Nachlass and collected for the first time under the title Thought Flights. They include material originally published in journals, newspapers, and magazines - but not included in Musil's Posthumous Papers of a Living Author - as well as literary fragments and heretofore unpublished texts. Despite the temporal, geographical, and cultural distance between Musil's world and ours, our own time and troubles are all too recognizable in Musil's portrayals of the "age of money," of simulation, and of standardization. Thought Flights is a lament of contemporary complacency, optimism, and homogenization as well as a celebration of living words and original thought by one of the great Modernists of the 20th century. As an astonishing master of metaphor and self-described "Monsieur le Vivisecteur," Musil explores the psyches and lives of himself and his contemporaries with illuminating insight. The lucid, striking prose of his stories and vignettes, and the wise and witty commentary of his glosses, show Musil's response to innovations in technology, art, and politics, and his efforts to enact a strategy for both illuminating and ameliorating the crisis of language that haunted his contemporaries. Moving effortlessly from discussion of fashion to Kant's categorical imperative, le vivisecteur writes with humor, lyricism, and fervor in an open genre availing itself of poetic prose, philosophical essay, fictional narrative, and feuilletonistic lightness. Through unlikely combinations and metaphoric syntheses, Musil brings "beauty and excitement" into the world, and when things that are usually separate unite, thoughts "fly." With this publication, the now growing English-language corpus of the author of The Confusions of Young Torless, Five Women, and The Man without Qualities is expanded further. Other volumes of Musil's writings will be forthcoming from Contra Mundum Press over the next decade.
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Born on November 6, 1880, in Klagenfort, Austria, Musil was the only child of an engineer; his father was knighted for his service under the Austro-Hungarian monarchy.
After the war he concentrated on the monumental novel he was never to complete, The Man without Qualities.
Die Verwirrungen des ZöglingsZoglings TörlessTorless (1906; Young TörlessTorless, 1955) is the account of an adolescent's experiences in a military school.
Musil's protagonist faces an unpleasant ordeal but is not broken by it.
His teachers are ironically described, but they are humans, not beasts.
Musil's keen psychological flair is apparent here as in his later works. Musil wrote five novels dealing with erotic situations; they were published as Vereinigungen (1911, "Unions") and Drei Frauen (1924, "Three Women"; Eng.
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of both books, Five Women, 1966).
In technique as well as scope it is comparable to the major novels of Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Hermann Broch.
It is typical of the pervasive humor and irony that no one can agree on a theme for the campaign.
His style, which has been compared to Proust's, is marked by subtle psychological analysis.
(The Austrian Robert Musil (1880-1942), a central figure i...)
(Robert Musil's Thought Flights vividly evokes the secrets...)
( Robert Musil is ranked alongside Marcel Proust and Jame...)
(This collection of exploratory pieces, short stories, and...)
In 1917 he married Martha Marcovaldi, an accomplished artist seven years his senior and the mother of two children.