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Good. 286 p. No dustjacket. Light scuffs to cover & knocks to edges. Dusty marks to textblock edges. Previous owner signatures/markings at front/back & title page. Back endpaper missing. Clipping from dustjacket taped in at front. Scuffed area/some tears on title page. Text very good.
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Very Good jacket. New York. 1978. Columbia University Press. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket With A Piece Missing From The Back Top. 0231044763. 286 pages. hardcover. keywords: Europe Austria Literature Translated World Literature. DESCRIPTION-‘Thomas Mann and those like him write for people who are here, ' wrote Robert Musil. ‘I write for people who are not [yet] here. ' Musil's constant literary experiments in the laboratory of his fiction were designed to reach a formidable Utopian goal: the eventual synthesis of reason and mysticism, science and religion, mind and soul. For he believed that the only way beyond the spiritual impoverishment, intellectual confusion, and emotional sterility of twentieth century life lay in the unification of modern man's fragmented inner life. Musil once declared that there was almost nothing which he liked in the present-day world. He clearly realized that many readers would be repelled by his attitude of aloofness, fanatical honesty, and general negativity as well as by the unsavory nature of the themes which inform his works, among them sadism, homosexuality, adultery, suicide, and incest. Historical events colluded to complete Musil's isolation. When the Nazis invaded Vienna in 1938, Musil was forced to flee to Switzerland with his Jewish wife. Having lost his publisher, the Jewish firm of Rowohlt, he sought in vain to find a new Swiss publisher. His declining years were burdened by a constant search for financial support, deteriorating health, and by the realization that he had been forgotten by his contemporaries. Throughout his Swiss exile, Musil saw his early reputation collapse as those of Thomas Mann and Hermann Broch ascended. Bitterly, Musil decided that his audience lay in the future. In recent years, Musil's name has been increasingly linked to those of Proust, Joyce, and Mann, and yet the critical literature on Musil's fiction in the English-speaking world is almost nonexistent. The publication of Frederick G. Peters' Robert Musil: Master of the Hovering Life corrects this situation by presenting a coherent and unified interpretation of all of Musil's major fiction while placing Musil's philosophical preoccupations in the broader context of European intellectual history, specifically psychoanalytical theory and existential thought. Much of Peters' analysis is focused on The Man without Qualities, the immense final novel in which Musil hoped to achieve his artistic and philosophical goals, and one of the most highly regarded European novels of this century. inventory #6112.
