
Musil Diaries
Basic Books (Publisher)
Published on 10. December 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
624 pages
978-0-465-01651-8 (ISBN)
Description
Robert Musil is ranked alongside Marcel Proust and James Joyce for his monumental, unfinished novel, The Man Without Qualities. His Diaries, a distillation of forty-three years of material, are valuable in a number of ways: as a first-hand historical document of life in twentieth-century central Europe, as a kind of unwitting autobiography of a great novelist, and as a writer's notebook that details the moods of artistic adventure.Readers will gain keen insights into Musil's passage from scientist, to soldier, to novelist, in honest passages that reveal the man in all his humour, ambition, frustration, and transcendence.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 191 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
1147 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-465-01651-8 (9780465016518)
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