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Posthumous Papers of a Living Author
Robert Musil
  • Published: 21 April 2012
  • ISBN: 9781935744481
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 179

Posthumous Papers of a Living Author




This collection of exploratory pieces, short stories, and reflections was originally published in Zurich in 1936. It was the last volume Robert Musil published before his sudden death in 1942. Musil had begun to fathom the impossibility of com- pleting his monumental masterpiece The Man Without Qualities and this volume reveals a radically different aspect of his work. Musil observes a fly’s tragic struggle with flypaper, the laughter of a horse; he peers through microscopes and telescopes, dissecting both large and small. Musil’s quest for the essential is a voyage into the minute.

  • Published: 21 April 2012
  • ISBN: 9781935744481
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 179

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