Books by Robert Musil

It is 1913, and Viennese high society is gripped by a mission to find an appropriate way of celebrating the seventieth jubilee of the accession of Emperor Franz Josef. But as the aristocracy tries to salvage something illustrious out of the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the ordinary Viennese world is beginning to show signs of more serious rebellion. Caught in the middle of this social labyrinth is Ulrich: youngish, rich, an ex-soldier, seducer and scientist.Unable to deceive himself that the jumble of attributes and values that his world has bestowed on him amounts to anything so innate as a 'character', he is effectively a man 'without qualities', a brilliant, detached observer of the spinning, racing society around him. Part satire, part visionary epic, part intellectual tour de force, The Man Without Qualities is a work of immeasurable importance.

Komplet nyoversættelse af en af verdenshistoriens klassikere; Musils mesterværk om århundredets begyndelse og tiden i det østrig-ungarske rige lige før udbruddet af Første Verdenskrig.

One of the great short novels of the early twentieth century. It is a novel of youth; a novel of growing up; and it casts an unflinching look at the world.

A stunning collection of Musil's vivid and enticing stories, looking at love, desire and the heart of humanity.

Der erste Roman Musils und ein Meisterwerk der literarischen Moderne: Der Internatsschüler einer Militäranstalt, Törleß, entlarvt zusammen mit zwei anderen Kadetten einen jüngeren Schüler als Dieb. Sie bestrafen und quälen ihn daraufhin auf grausame Weise und üben schonungslos ihre Macht aus, anstatt sein Vergehen zu melden. Obwohl Törleß der qualvolle Umgang mit ihrem „Versuchsobjekt" zunehmend anwidert, schafft er es nicht, sich ganz davon zu befreien... Robert Musil (1880-1942) war ein österreichischer Schriftsteller und Theaterkritiker, der neben einer militärischen und technischen Ausbildung auch in Philosophie promovierte. Er kämpfte im Ersten Weltkrieg an der Front und ging während des Zweiten Weltkriegs mit seiner jüdischen Frau ins Exil in die Schweiz. Sein Hauptwerk ist der Roman „Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften".

Although known principally for his modernist masterpiece, The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil (1880-1942) was also a playwright and drama critic. Musil's plays and theatrical investigations, written between 1921-1929, are inseparable form his later literary work and from his life-long commitment to art as a social and cultural activity. His brilliant plays and critical writings are not minor aspects of his artistic life, bu essential works, preparing the way for and intrinsically connected to his great, unfinished novel. In the theater of the fraught period between the two world wars, Musil recognized a crisis that was symptomatic of larger social, political, and aesthetic problems. In seeing Art as a social and cultural stimulus, he leveled piercing critiques at the commodification and conformism of the Culture Industry of his time and pointed the way toward a living, transformative theater.As an observer and researcher of the psychology of aesthetic experience, a student of anthropology and mysticism, and a writer who sometimes practiced the art of literature like an essayist and scientific experimenter, Musil saw in theater the ideal testing ground for questions about perception, reality, and the effects of ritual practices like formal variation, repetition, and the suspension of normal consciousness. In contrast to the mostly shallow entertainment on offer, Musil saw the potential of theater - and all of art - as a force that could incite existential shattering of received ideas and a renewal of "motivated" existence. Theater Symptoms constitutes not only the first volume in English of Musil's finished plays and a selection of play fragments with a large body of previously untranslated critical, including manifestoes of his utopian theatrical vision. His theoretical essays and reviews elucidate the symptoms of and possible cures for the dangerous decline, not only of theater or art, but also, in Musil's view, of social relations: a descent from an ethico-aesthetic and "motivated" conduct of life to that of an uncritical, ethically lazy, aesthetically insensitive, and consumer-driven society. Musil's reviews of Stanislavski's Moscow Troupe, cabaret performances of Yvette Guilbert, the Yiddish theater, Expressionist stage innovations, productions of Shakespeare, Shaw, Schnitzler, Chekhov, and others, reveal Musil as a perceptive and visionary analyst of what theater was and what it could be.This is the third volume of Musil's writings translated and introduced by Genese Grill and published by Contra Mundum Press.

Einer der wichtigsten Romane des fruhen 20. Jahrhunderts: Ulrich ist der "e;Mann ohne Eigenschaften"e; - ein junger Intellektueller, der sich schlielich als Sekretar fur die Feier zum 70. Thronjubilaum des osterreichischen Kaisers Franz Joseph I. anstellen lasst, nachdem seine Versuche der beruflichen und privaten Selbstverwirklichung gescheitert sind. Der Roman spielt auf den bevorstehenden Zusammenbruch der k. und k. Monarchie an.-

Beitrag zur Beurteilung der Lehren MachsInaugural - Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doktorwürde ist ein unveränderter, hochwertiger Nachdruck der Originalausgabe.Hansebooks ist Herausgeber von Literatur zu unterschiedlichen Themengebieten wie Forschung und Wissenschaft, Reisen und Expeditionen, Kochen und Ernährung, Medizin und weiteren Genres. Der Schwerpunkt des Verlages liegt auf dem Erhalt historischer Literatur. Viele Werke historischer Schriftsteller und Wissenschaftler sind heute nur noch als Antiquitäten erhältlich. Hansebooks verlegt diese Bücher neu und trägt damit zum Erhalt selten gewordener Literatur und historischem Wissen auch für die Zukunft bei.

In 1911, following his 1906 debut, The Confusions of Young Törless, Robert Musil published the two experimental stories that make up Unions. "The Completion of Love" and "The Temptation of Quiet Veronica" were some of Musil's earliest forays into what would become a life-long exploration of the life, adventures, and psychological processes of his fiancé, Martha Marcovaldi - the future Martha Musil. When Musil later wrote of the "two authors" of his great unfinished work, The Man without Qualities, the co-author referred to was no other than Martha. The stories in Unions, drawn from Martha's life, explode conventional morality; explore questions of self, union, and dissolution of self; and approximate exceptional sensations of erotic and intellectual perception in a shimmering and exceedingly dense proliferation of metaphors. The images, Musil tells us in a note, are the bone, not just the skin, of these carefully crafted stories. Each word is as motivated as the internal and external moments it attempts to embody in language. Although Musil did not continue to work in this experimental style in his later writing, in a late note he affirmed that Unions, the fruit of much artistic struggle and deep personal engagement, was the only one of his books that he sometimes still read from. This is a new English-language translation of the two stories and the first one to appear - in the form of Musil's original publication - as Unions. A scholarly introduction by the translator, Genese Grill, explains the provenance of the stories and the need for a new approach to this book so central to his oeuvre.

Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß ist der erste Roman von Robert Musil. Die Erstausgabe erschien 1906 im Wiener Verlag. Mit Hilfe der psychologischen Darstellung der Pubertät von vier Schülern spiegelt der Roman modellhaft autoritäre Gesellschaftsstrukturen wider, indem er einen Zusammenhang zwischen psychischer Disposition und totalitärer Institution herstellt. Die Handlung spielt vor dem Hintergrund der Ichfindung des jungen Törleß im Spannungsfeld von Rationalität und Emotionalität einerseits sowie Intellektualismus und mystischer Welterfahrung andererseits.