ENGLISH

Posthumous Papers of a Living Author

By Robert Musil

Book information

Publisher
Archipelago
Year
2012
ISBN
9781935744481, 1935744488
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
418 kB (428011 bytes)
Pages
179\0
Time added
2018-11-20 15:41:10

Description

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.

Similar books