Posthumous Papers of a Living Author

Author

Robert Musil

Original Work

Posthumous Papers of a Living Author

Translator

Peter Wortsman

Language

English

Year

2006

Publisher

Archipelago Books

Country

United States

Pages

179

ISBN

9780976395041

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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.— Google Books