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Robert Edler Von Musil | | Birth Date: |
November 6, 1880 | | Death Date: |
April 15, 1942 | | Place of Birth: |
Klagenfurt, Austria | | Place of Death: |
Geneva, Switzerland | | Nationality: |
Austrian | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
novelist |
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 Biography of Robert Edler Von Musil
634 words, approx. 2 pages
 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 born on Nov. 6, 1880, in Klagenfurt, Carinthia,... summary from source:
Biography of Robert Edler Von Musil
8,968 words, approx. 30 pages
 Robert 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 Verwimmgen des Zoglings Torle (The Confusions of Young Torless, 1906;... 
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 Robert Musil Information
1,350 words, approx. 5 pages
Robert Musil (November 6, 1880, Klagenfurt, Austria – April 15, 1942, Geneva, Switzerland) was an Austrian writer. His unfinished long novel The Man Without Qualities (in German, Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften) is generally considered to be one of...
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 New Criterion Robert Musil Diaries 1899-1941.(Review)
03/01/2000: 3,142 words, approx. 11 pages Flypaper for ghosts Robert Musil Diaries 1899-1941. Translated by Philip Payne. Basic Books, 607 pages, $40 Robert Musil was a truculent citizen of a vanished empire. Old Austria may have been defunct after 1918 but in Musil's excoriating imagination it lived on... summary from source:
German Quarterly The Void of Ethics: Robert Musil and the Experience of Modernity
04/01/2007: 739 words, approx. 3 pages McBride, Patrizia C, The Void of Ethics: Robert Musil and the Experience of Modernity. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2006.231 pp. $75.95 hardcover. Musil's writing is suffused with an ethical impulse, culminating in the quest of Ulrich, the protagonist of The Man Without Qualities,... summary from source:
 The New York Observer Coetzee\'d5s Master Class in Literary Criticism
7/17/2007: 547 words, approx. 2 pagesINNER WORKINGS: LITERARY ESSAYS 2000-2005By J.M. Coetzee Viking, 304 pages, $25.95 Each of the 21 essays included in Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005 is named for the author whose works it examines, making the collection’s table of contents read like a syllabus.... summary from source:
The New York Observer Expert, Elegant Satire Gently Exposes Media Elite
8/27/2006: 1,145 words, approx. 4 pagesFor her fourth novel, The Emperor’s Children, Claire Messud has put aside her customary sobriety and composed a suspenseful, dark, pitch-perfect comedy of manners and morals about a small collection of individuals who aspire to—or might have stepped from—the “Intelligencer” section of New York magazine...
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Lowell A. Bangerter
5,133 words, approx. 17 pages
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 the "unions" referred to in the title of Unions are ones that take place within the protagonists rather than between individuals.
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Critical Essay by Michael W. Jennings
4,529 words, approx. 15 pages
In the following excerpt, Jennings argues that Homo's search for a unified identity in Grigia is undermined by his self-delusion.
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