Musil, Robert

Musil, Robert, Tagebucher, ed. Adolf Erise, 2. vols. (Reinbek, 1976) (The second volume contains extensive information on Robert Musil s life and intellectual interests, and the genesis of his creative work.)... 

Titche, L.L. Into the Millenium the theme of the Hermaphrodite in Robert Musil s DerMann ohne Eigenschaften. Oxford Germ Stud, no. 7 (1973) 143-160. 

The Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy collapsed in November. Austrian novelist Robert Musil explained that collapse as well as anybody in a dry epitaph Es ist passiert ( It sort of happened ). Hungary won a new government on October 31 and ecstatic crowds filled the streets of Budapest waving chrysanthemums, which had become the symbol of the revolution, and cheering the truckloads of soldiers and workers that pushed through. 

Nor is this historiographical circle broken by the much-heralded passage from the modern to the so-called postmodern. Witness Stefan Jonnson s insightful book, in which the conventional historiography on the Hahshurg nationality conflict merges seamlessly with anti-foundationalist philosophy s critique of the existence of a modern self Stefan Jonnson, Subject Without Nation Robert Musil and the History of Modern Identity (Durham, N.C. Duke University Press, 2000). 

Nevertheless, even in this difficult political situation, Zurich became once again the center of European modernism. Thomas Mann, who had lived in Switzerland since 1933, received special treatment in his adoptive country. He founded the journal Measure and Value in 1937, which courageously published contributions by emigres, including Walter Benj amin, Ernst Bloch, Alfred Ddblin, Robert Musil, and Heinrich and Klaus Mann. The Swiss socialist Emil Oprecht, who published this journal, also distributed books that criticized fascism, such as Bloch s Inheritance of This Time (1935) and Heinrich Mann s The Day Will Come A German Reader (1936). 

Robert Musil, Gesammelte Werke, ed. Adolf Prise, 9 vols. (Reinbek, 1978), vi,... 

Luft, David, Robert Musil and the Crisis of European Culture, 1SS0-1942 (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1980)... 

Mitchell, P>Kon, James Joyce and the German Novel J922-1933 (Athens, OH, 1976) Payne, Philip, Robert Musil s Works, 1906-1924 a Critical Introduction (Erankfurt am Main, Bern and New York, 1987)... 

Apocalypse and utopia in the Austrian novel of the 1930s Hermann Broch and Robert Musil... 

In 1930, six years after the publication of The Magic Mountain, there appeared the first parts of two novels by Austrian writers that were destined to take their place alongside Mann s work as summative achievements of European modernist fiction. Hermann Broch s 1888. Pasenow oder die Romantik (Pasenow the Romantic (1888)) was the first volume of the trilogy Die Schlafwandler (The Sleepwalkers, 1932.), whose second and third parts were published in 1931 and 1932. Book i of Robert Musil s Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (The Man Without Qualities, 1953-60) was followed by a portion of Book 2 in 1933, but the work remained incomplete, a massive fragment, on its author s death in 1942. ... 

Corino, Karl, Robert Musil. Leben und Werk in Bildern und Texten (Reinbek, 1988) Corino, Karl, Robert Musil (Reinbek, 2003)... 

Durzak, Manfred, Hermann Broch. Dichtung und Erkenntnis (Stuttgart, 1978) Hickman, Hannah, Robert Musil and the Culture of Vienna (London, 1984) Horrocks, David, The novel as history Hermann Broch s trilogy Die Schlafwandler , in A. F. Bance (ed.), Weimar Germany Writers and Politics (Edinburgh, 1982), pp. 38-52... 

Payne, Philip, Robert Musil s The Man without Qualities a Critical Study (Cambridge, 1988)... 

Pike, Burton, Robert Musil an Introduction to his Work (Port Washington and London, 1972)... 

Roth, Marie-Louise, Robert Musil, I homme au double regard (Paris, 1987)... 

In 1989 he was awarded the Robert Musil Medal by the City of Klagenfurt, Austria. His most recent publication is a translation of Musil s diaries. 

BURTON PIKE is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and German at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. He is author of The Image of the City in Modern Literature 19 1), and has edited and co-translated (with Sophie Wilkins) Robert Musil s The Man Without Qualities (1995). He has also published translations of other works by Musil, and of Goethe s The Sorrows of Young Werther, further translations have appeared in a number of literary journals. 

Germany s finances stabilised increasing political stability. Expressionism runs out of steam. Thomas Mann, Der Zau-berberg Robert Musil, Drei Frauen... 

Jaakobs Robert Musil, Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (portion of Book 2)... 

Hermann Hesse, Das Glasperlenspiel Thomas Mann, Joseph der Ernahrer posthumous publication of remainder of Robert Musil s Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften Lion Feuchtwanger, Simone... 

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