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Robert Musil (German: [ˈʁoːbɛʁt ˈmuːzɪl]; 6 November 1880 – 15 April 1942) was an Austrian philosophical writer. His unfinished novel, The Man Without Qualities (German: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften), is generally considered to be one of the most important and influential modernist novels.
Robert Musil was an Austrian-German novelist, best known for his monumental unfinished novel Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (1930–43; The Man Without Qualities). Musil received a doctorate from the University of Berlin in 1908 and then held jobs as a librarian and an editor before serving in the
The Man Without Qualities. The Man Without Qualities (German: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften; 1930–1943) is an unfinished modernist novel in three volumes and various drafts, by the Austrian writer Robert Musil. The novel is a "story of ideas", which takes place in the time of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy 's last days, and the plot often veers ...
Nov 6, 2020 · Robert Musil died of a brain infarction on April 15, 1942. In the last hours of his life, he was still toiling over the third volume of The Man Without Qualities. An unfinished chapter, titled ...
Dec 26, 2016 · Along with Proust’s A la Recherche du Temps Perdu and Joyce’s Ulysses, Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities represents the pinnacle of the modernist novel in Europe. In terms of content if not technique, Musil’s work speaks most directly to a contemporary readership. Set in Vienna in the year before the First World War, it depicts a ...
See also Klaus Amann, Robert Musil: Literatur und Politik (Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 2009); and Allen Thiher, Understanding Robert Musil (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 2009). ↩ Even so, the constructive potentiality of Musil’s multiplicitous and experimental Austria-Hungary of the prewar years has caught more attention than ...
Robert Musil was born in Klagenfurt, capital of the southern Austrian province of Carinthia, on November 6, 1880. He was the only son of the knighted engineer Alfred Edler von Musil, a native of Graz, who was, for many years, a professor at the Technical University in Brno. Among Musil’s ancestors were civil servants, scholars, doctors and ...
Robert Musil. Austrian writer. He graduated military boarding school at Eisenstadt (1892-1894) and then Hranice, in that time also known as Mährisch Weißkirchen, (1894-1897). These school experiences are reflected in his first novel, The Confusions of Young Törless. He served in the army during The First World War.
Jun 11, 2018 · Musil, Robert (1880–1942) Austrian novelist. His masterpiece is the epic novel The Man Without Qualities (1930–43), on the closing years of the Habsburg Empire. Robert Musil [1] (rō´bĕrt mōō´zĬl), 1880–1942, Austrian novelist. His style, which has been compared to Proust [2]'s, is marked by subtle psychological analysis.
Jun 15, 2021 · Abstract. Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities is an unfinished novel written in Vienna between the wars. Opening in the summer of 1913, it depicts the Habsburg Empire and the long, liberal nineteenth century on the eve of their collapse. Like many modernist writers, Musil prioritizes the inner world over the outer, and most of the novel ...
Musil’s early family life was calculated to breed complication. Apparently with the acquiescence of her husband, Hermine maintained what amounted to a ménage à trois with one Heinrich Reiter, who met the family in 1881, shortly after Robert was born. As he grew older, Musil quite naturally came to resent Reiter and to despise his father.
Robert Musil. Robert Musil (Klagenfurt, Austria, November 6, 1880 - April 15, 1942 in Geneva, Switzerland) was an Austrian writer, author of the unfinished long novel The Man Without Qualities (Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften), one of the most important Modernist novels ever written. Musil led a unique life for a literary author; as a young man he ...
Robert Musil [1] (Aussprache: [ˈmuːzɪl]; * 6. November 1880 in St. Ruprecht bei Klagenfurt; † 15. April 1942 in Genf) war ein österreichischer Schriftsteller und Theaterkritiker. Für sein literarisches Schaffen waren der Erste Weltkrieg sowie die Errichtung der nationalsozialistischen Herrschaft in Deutschland und Österreich bedeutsame ...
Robert Musil has 256 books on Goodreads with 126281 ratings. Robert Musil’s most popular book is The Confusions of Young Törless.
Musil's Ashes In this special case I think I have to say something about the author and the way the book was published: The novel remained fragmentary. Robert Musil died of a stroke while working on the last part in April 1942. At this time he lived with his wife in exile in Switzerland near Geneva, almost penniless and nearly forgotten.
Dec 5, 2019 · First there was Robert Musil the mechanical engineer, who invented a chroma meter, a device for evaluating color. Then there was Musil the philosophical scientist, interested in probability theory ...
Dec 10, 1999 · 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 ...
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The Man Without Qualities, unfinished novel by Austrian writer Robert Musil, published as Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften in three installments in 1930, 1933, and 1943. Musil’s sprawling masterpiece was his life’s work. On the surface a witty, urbane portrait of life in the last days of the.
Musil, Robert. Grigia: Novelle von Robert Musil (1923, ve formátu .DjVu) Robert Musil patří k předním rakouským a evropským spisovatelům 20. století. Je považován za jednoho z čelných představitelů modernismu, nepřipojil se však umělecky k žádnému z velkých estetických hnutí meziválečné Evropy.
Dec 9, 1996 · Robert Musil's two-volume unfinished novel published in 1952 and 1978 is remarkably relevant to the current Zeitgeist in the United States. The central character Ulrich is a man without qualities, a person indifferent to his middle class position and abilities.
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