Musil Diaries

by Robert Musil

2020-12-31 23:23:01

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... Read more
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 His Diaries, a distillation of forty-three years of material, are valuable in a number of ways: as a first-hand historical document of life in twentieth-century central Europe, as a kind of unwitting autobiography of a great novelist, and as a writer''s notebook that details the moods of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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File size9.25 X 7.38 X 1.28 in
Print pages624
PublisherBasic Books
Publication date December 10, 1999
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780465016518
Robert Musil (6 Nov 1880-15 April 1942), born in Vienna, was trained as a mathematician, behavioral psychologist, engineer, and philosopher. During World War I, he served as an officer in the Austrian...

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