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The World as Metaphor in Robert Musil's The Man without Qualities - Possibility as Reality (Paperback)
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The World as Metaphor in Robert Musil's The Man without Qualities - Possibility as Reality (Paperback)
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 he 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, and the 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. The first study to utilize the Klagenfurter Ausgabe
(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 only on Musil's
novel, but also on larger questions about the modernist artist's
role and responsibility in consciously re-creating the world.
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