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Musil, Robert - rōˈbĕrt mooˈzĭl, 1880–1942, Austrian novelist. His style, which has been compared to Proust's, is marked by subtle psychological analysis. This is evident in the novel Young Törless (1906, tr. 1955) and in his chief work, Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (3 vol., 1930–42; tr. The Man without Qualities, 1953–60 and 1995)


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    Five Women » Read Now

    by Robert Musil. 224 pgs.

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    Diaries, 1899-1941 » Read Now

    by Robert Musil. 628 pgs.

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    Robert Musil is one of the great Modernist writers, but his private thoughts have long been unavailable to English readers. Diaries translates passages from his personal daybooks spanning over four decades from the turn of the century to his death. It documents the creative process behind The Man...
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    The Dark Side of Creativity: Blocks, Unfinished Works, and the Urge to Destroy (Chap. 3 "Unfinished Near-Masterpieces: The Recluse by William Wordsworth, The Man without Qualities by Robert Musil, Nerone by Arrigo Boito") » Read Now

    by Cecile Nebel. 162 pgs.

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    "Nebel shows us too how aware some artists are of the discrepancy between what they see in their imagination and what they are able to produce. . . . The accounts of the emotions of these people and the anecdotes are very readable and it is interesting to learn why some artists feel they have to...
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    Self-Knowledge and the Self (Chap. 5 "The Man without Qualities Irony, Contingency, and the Lightness of Being") » Read Now

    by David A. Jopling. 194 pgs.

    Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
    Can we ever really answer the question, "who am I"? In this remarkably clear, fresh and persuasive treatment of a long-standing philosophical question, Jopling argues that we can acquire self-knowledge, but that our attempts to know ourselves shape and alter the very self that is their object; that...
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    Encyclopedia of the Essay ("Musil, Robert: Austrian, 1880-1942" begins on p. 586) » Read Now

    by Tracy Chevalier. 1028 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    The Encyclopedia of the Essay is the first reference work entirely devoted to the essay as a genre.

    Coverage begins with Montaigne, the first essayist, and stretches forward to Addison and Steele, The Spectator and The Tatler, Marivaux, William Hazlitt, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Robert Musil, Theodor...

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