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The World as Metaphor in Robert Musil's The Man without Qualities - Possibility as Reality (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
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The World as Metaphor in Robert Musil's The Man without Qualities - Possibility as Reality (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
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The first study to utilize the Klagenfurt Edition of Musil's
Nachlass offers a close reading of textual variations, emphasizing
Musil's commitment to the artist's role in re-creating the world.
Robert Musil, known to be a scientific and philosophical thinker,
was committed to aesthetics as a process of experimental creation
of an ever-shifting reality. Musil wanted, above all, to be a
creative writer, and obsessively engaged in almost endless deferral
via variations and metaphoric possibilities in his novel project,
The Man without Qualities. This lifelong process of writing is
embodied in the unfinished novel by a recurring metaphor of
self-generating de-centered circle worlds. The present study
analyzes this structure with reference to Musil's concepts of the
utopia of the Other Condition, Living and Dead Words, Specific and
Non-Specific Emotions, Word Magic, andthe Still Life. In contrast
to most recent studies of Musil, it concludes that the
extratemporal metaphoric experience of the Other Condition does not
fail, but rather constitutes the formal and ethical core of Musil's
novel. Thefirst study to utilize the newly published Klagenfurt
Edition of Musil's literary remains (a searchable annotated text),
The World as Metaphor offers a close reading of variations and text
genesis, shedding light not onlyon Musil's novel, but also on
larger questions about the modernist artist's role and
responsibility in consciously re-creating the world. Genese Grill
holds a PhD in Germanic Literatures and Languages from the
GraduateSchool and University Center of the City University of New
York.
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