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Biography EssayRobert Musil belongs to that small group of twentieth- century novelists who strove to capture in fictional form the definitive image of their age. His early works, the novel Die Verwi...
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The Austrian novelist, dramatist, and essayist Robert Edler von Musil (1880-1942) gained a largely posthumous fame for his monumental and unfinished novel "The Man without Qualities."Robert Musil was ...
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An American critic and educator specializing in German literature, Pike is the editor of Robert Musil: Selected Writings (1986) and Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses of Robert Musil (1990). In ...
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Kermode is an English critic who combines modern critical methods with traditional scholarship. In his discussions of modern literature Kermode has embraced many of the concepts of structuralism and p...
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In the following essay, Sjögren contends that the nameless narrator of Musil's Tonka exhibits the symptoms of schizophrenia.
Strictly speaking, there is no narrator formally interposed bet...
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In the following excerpt, Peters interprets The Lady from Portugal from a psychoanalytic perspective.
The second story [The Lady from Portugal] in the trilogy Three Women is set (as was the first stor...
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In the following essay, Paulson discusses the mythological elements of Musil's Grigia.
Robert Musil's Grigia is a story with a very simple plot and very little development of characters,...
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In the following excerpt, Jennings argues that Homo's search for a unified identity in Grigia is undermined by his self-delusion.
Grigia opens with a brief recounting of the geologist Homo�...
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In the following excerpt, Kontje analyzes the elements of power and domination in the relationship between the unnamed narrator and the eponymous character in Musil's Tonka.
Robert Musil'...
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An American critic and educator, Bangerter is the author of German Writing since 1945 (1988) as well as studies of Johann Schiller and Hugo von Hofmannsthal. In the following exerpt, he argues that th...
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In the following excerpt focusing on Tonka, Mabee discusses the women in Musil's novellas, arguing that their association with nature and imagination makes them "catalysts for illuminati...
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In the following review, Heilbut outlines Musil's main characteristics as a writer and thinker as evidenced in the essays and fiction collected in Posthumous Papers of a Living Author.
Since so...
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In the following review, Bayley discusses two later translations of works by Musil.
The German term Dichter is not at all readily translatable. It has a wider sense than "poet," and a mo...
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Robert Edler Von Musil
Critical Essay by Burton Pike
