At a bleak, isolated military school on the fringes of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, four young cadets - Torless, Beineberg, Reiting and their victim Basini - drift even further away from their school-fellows into a private world of ritual, secrecy and torture. This title is first published in 1906.[...]

"We do not have too much intellect and too little soul, but too little precision in matters of the soul."--Robert Musil Best known as author of the novel The Man without Qualities, Robert Musil wrote these essays in Vienna and Berlin between 1911 and 1937. Offering a perspective on modern society an[...]

Set in Vienna on the eve of World War I, this great novel of ideas tells the story of Ulrich, ex-soldier and scientist, seducer and skeptic, who finds himself drafted into the grandiose plans for the 70th jubilee of the Emperor Franz Josef. This new translation--published in two elegant volumes--is [...]

This book positions Robert Musil's theory and writings within recent critical accounts of modernism and brings him into dialogue with continental philosophy. Musil's novel "The Man Without Qualities" is widely recognized as a monument of modernist literature alongside "Remembrance of Things Past" an[...]

Written by the great Austrian novelist in 1924, "Three Women"--consisting of three long stories, "Grigia," "The Portuguese Lady," and "Tonka"--was written just a few years prior to Robert Musil's twentieth-century masterpiece "The Man Without Qualities." Beloved by writers Thomas Mann and Hermann Br[...]

Robert Musil, known to be a scientific and philosophical thinker, was committed to aesthetics as a process of experimental creation of an ever-shifting reality. Musil wanted, above all, to be a creative writer, and obsessively engaged in almost endless deferral via variations and metaphoric possibil[...]

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d'UniversalisCommence vers 1918, le vaste projet romanesque de L'Homme sans qualites absorba toute l'energie de Robert Musil (1880-1942) jusqu'a sa mort, sans qu'il puisse parvenir a le mener a bien.Une fiche de lecture specialement concue pour le n[...]

Literary utopias are a vehicle for a special kind of cultural communication. Literary visions are of particular importance in anticipating the future and in contrasting reality and possibility in the context of thinking about the future. The antitheses implicitly or explicitly relate to the current [...]

"Musils Buch besitzt die hinreißendsten Romaneigenschaften: Anschaulichkeit noch in der unsinnlichsten Reflexion, Heiterkeit bis zu tanzendem Übermut, gründlichen Humor, der kaum an ein oder zwei Stellen geringere Humoristika passieren läßt, und vor allem einen Reichtum und Witz des V[...]