Here is a review by David Winters on Mark Reed’s recently published Robert Musil and the NonModern. There’s something about The Man Without Qualities that seems to resist conclusive criticism. Something not so much unfinished as uniquely continuous; infinite. The reason the novel is unlike anything else you’ll ever read is because it goes on reading itself…
Leonard Lopate discusses with Burton Pike, editor and translator of Robert Musil’s titanic though unfinished novel, the philosophical and aesthetic ideas circulating in pre-war Viennese society as depicted in The Man Without Qualities. Download the audio file here: Underappreciated: Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities (19 mins)
Robert Musil (November 6, 1880 – April 15, 1942). A chapter from Man Without Qualities entitled: A chapter that can be skipped by anyone who has no very high opinion of thinking as an occupation. See also this forthcoming collection.
I’m very much looking forward to this Monist collection on Robert Musil edited by Bence Nanay. It’s about time Musil got the mainstream philosophical recognition he so deserves. Bravo Bence! Needless to say that with my moniker I’m a great fan of Musil. Here is an extract from Musil’s Man Without Qualities. And if ever…
I came across this nice article by Ted Gioia entitled Exhuming Robert Musil: A Fresh Look at The Man Without Qualities. Here is an excerpt: The Man Without Qualities depicts a strange world in which a couple is given a copy of Nietzsche as a wedding gift, a murderer on death row spends his days…
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