The World as Metaphor in Robert Musil's the Man Without Qualities: Possibility as Reality

by Genese Grill

Book Overview

The first study to utilize the Klagenfurt Edition of Musil's Nachlass offers a close reading of textual variations, emphasizing Musil's commitment to the artist's role in re-creating the world.

Robert Musil, known to be a scientific and philosophical thinker, was committed to aesthetics as a process of experimental creation of an ever-shifting reality. Musil wanted, above all, to be a creative writer, and he obsessively engaged in almost endless...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1640141278
• ISBN13: 9781640141278
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"