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Title: Selected Writings (GERMAN LIBRARY) by Robert Musil ISBN: 0-8264-0304-2 Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 July, 1986 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
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Summary: A Bit of Everything
Comment: Readers who seek a comprehensive collection of Robert Musil's work - exclusive of his opus, "The Man Without Qualities" - will be well-served by this edition. It contains most of his short stories, some of his non-fiction writings, and most importantly, his first novel, "Young Torless" - an early look at Musil's craft which also introduces us to the themes contained in his later works. The bare plot of "Torless" reads deceptively like one of those bad teen dramas on the WB network: it is the tale of secrets and betrayals among schoolboys, here in the turn-of-the-century Austro-Hungarian Empire. But in Musil's hands, as always, it is a work of deep philosophical ideas; he uses the relationships among the boys to explore the nature of power - how it is gained, how it corrupts, how it destroys. We are required to confront the problem of truth and the fallacy of objective morality. The disillusionment that Young Torless feels when his teacher is unable to explain the theory of imaginary numbers - telling his pupil that he must merely "accept" that they exist - is the same skepticism which Musil and the other modernist writers felt for all ideas, whether science, history, politics or faith. It was through literature that Musil believed that he might bring order to the world, that he might re-create ideas. For any reader who wishes an introduction to the variety of Robert Musil's work, this is a good start.
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Title: The Man Without Qualities Vol. 1: A Sort of Introduction and Pseudo Reality Prevails by Robert Musil, Sophie Wilkins, Burton Pike ISBN: 0679767878 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 December, 1996 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The Confusions of Young Törless by Robert Musil, Shaun Whiteside, J. M. Coetzee ISBN: 0142180009 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 28 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz, Danuta Borchardt ISBN: 0300082401 Publisher: Yale Nota Bene Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine ISBN: 0811208478 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation Pub. Date: 01 January, 1983 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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