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 ...
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 Without Qualities, while providing a window into a Vienna simmering with the ideas of Freud and Wittgenstein.
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. Serving up irony with mathematical precision, Diaries dramatizes the "disappearance" of self experienced by modern man ("without qualities"). With Musil's reputation and visibility boosted due to the recent release of a vastly improved translation of his legendary novel, Diaries will attract a major audience of old and new fans.
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