Table of Contents

Introduction: The Symbiosis of Robert Musil's Life and Works - Philip Payne
Robert Musil: Literature and Politics - Klaus Amann
Robert Musil's Diaries: Medium between Life and Literature - Philip Payne
Robert Musil in the Garden of Conservatism - Galin Tihanov
Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß: Adolescent Sexuality, the Authoritarian Mindset, and the Limits of Language - Matthias Luserke-Jaqui
Musil's "Die Vollendung der Liebe": Experience Analyzed and Reconstituted - Sylvia Bonacchi
"Shifts in Emphasis": Robert Musil's Die Schwärmer and Twentieth-Century Drama - Christian Rogowski
Robert Musil's Novellas in the Collection Drei Frauen - Peter Henninger
The Genesis of Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften - Walter Fanta
The Contribution of Biographical Research to the Understanding of Characters and Themes of Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften - Karl Corino
Figuring Thought in Culture: "Utopia" in Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften from the Perspective of Kulturwissenschaft - Matthias Luserke-Jaqui
The "Other" Musil: Robert Musil and Mysticism - Genese Grill
Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften: Unfinished or without End? - Burton Pike
The "Finale" of Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften: Competing Editions and the "Telos" of the Narrative - Walter Fanta
"Reception without Qualities": Musil's Impact on Austrian and German Writers after 1945 - Rudiger Gorner
Select Bibliography
Robert Musil's Life: A Chronology - Karl Corino
Notes on the Contributors
Index

About the Author

GENESE GRILL (PhD CUNY Graduate Center) is an independent scholar and artist. She has written extensively on Musil and has published translations of several of his works.

Reviews

Taking advantage of new resources from the author's literary estate, this excellent book presents well-researched, contemporary interpretations.... This is the first reliable, balanced evaluation of his complete oeuvre.
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