Posthumous Papers of a Living Author

Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Classics, Literary
Cover of the book Posthumous Papers of a Living Author by Robert Musil, Steerforth Press
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Author: Robert Musil ISBN: 9781935744481
Publisher: Steerforth Press Publication: April 21, 2012
Imprint: Archipelago Language: English
Author: Robert Musil
ISBN: 9781935744481
Publisher: Steerforth Press
Publication: April 21, 2012
Imprint: Archipelago
Language: English

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.

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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.

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