| Posthumous Papers of a Living Author Contributor(s): Musil, Robert (Author), Wortsman, Peter (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0976395045 ISBN-13: 9780976395041 Publisher: Archipelago Books OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2006 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: "Peter Wortsman's translation is splendid, succeeding better than any I've read in capturing this author's unique combination of quizzical authority and austere hedonism."-Anthony Heilbut, "The New York Times Book Review" From one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century come these chiseled essays and sketches written in the 1920s. Exploratory, quirky, full of soul and humor. (Reprint of the Eridonos edition, 1987.) |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: 833.912 |
| LCCN: 2006003177 |
| Physical Information: 0.58" H x 6.62" W x 6.18" (0.44 lbs) 179 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |