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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.
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.
A panel of authors, critics, and academics convened by the
Literaturhaus in Munich in 1999 voted Robert Musil's The Man
without Qualities the most important German novel of the 20th
century. Their collective judgment rests on strong foundations: on
the work's encyclopedic compass, embracing intellectual, social,
political, and cultural concerns embodied in themes of striking
originality; on its probing of key issues of Austrian and German
life from the first four decades of the twentieth century; on the
brilliance of its language, unsurpassed by any other 20th-century
author writing in German. While this Companion gives The Man
without Qualities the central focus it deserves, it also
contributes to a deeper understanding of Musil's other significant
works; in harnessing a team of established scholars from North
America and Europe to the task of providing an assessment of
Musil's work, it sets new standards in scope and originality. The
analyses are embedded in an appreciation of the intellectual
contexts of Musil's writing, yielding fresh insights into Musil's
artistic accomplishment and into his place in the Austrian and
German cultural traditions of the 20th century. CONTRIBUTORS:
PHILIP PAYNE, KLAUS AMANN, GALIN TIHANOV, MATTHIAS LUSERKE-JAQUI,
SILVIA BONACCHI, CHRISTIAN ROGOWSKI, PETER HENNINGER, WALTER FANTA,
KARL CORINO, GENESE GRILL, BURTON PIKE, RA1/4DIGER GARNER Philip
Payne is Professor of German Studies at Lancaster University, UK;
Graham Bartram is Senior Lecturer in German Studies at Lancaster
University, UK; and Galin Tihanov is Professor of Comparative
Literature and Intellectual History and Co-Director of the Research
Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures at the Universityof Manchester,
UK.
A fresh and extensive look at the works of the great Austrian
novelist in the context of the German and Austrian culture of his
time. A panel of authors, critics, and academics convened by the
Literaturhaus in Munich in 1999 voted Robert Musil's The Man
without Qualities the most important German novel of the 20th
century. Their collective judgment restson strong foundations: on
the work's encyclopedic compass, embracing intellectual, social,
political, and cultural concerns embodied in themes of striking
originality; on its probing of key issues of Austrian and German
life fromthe first four decades of the twentieth century; on the
brilliance of its language, unsurpassed by any other 20th-century
author writing in German. While this Companion gives The Man
without Qualities the central focus it deserves, it also
contributes to a deeper understanding of Musil's other significant
works; in harnessing a team of established scholars from North
America and Europe to the task of providing an assessment of
Musil's work, it setsnew standards in scope and originality. The
analyses are embedded in an appreciation of the intellectual
contexts of Musil's writing, yielding fresh insights into Musil's
artistic accomplishment and into his place in the Austrianand
German cultural traditions of the 20th century. Contributors:
Philip Payne, Klaus Amann, Galin Tihanov, Matthias Luserke-Jaqui,
Silvia Bonacchi, Christian Rogowski, Peter Henninger, Walter Fanta,
Karl Corino, GeneseGrill, Burton Pike, Rudiger Goerner Philip Payne
is emeritus Professor of German Studies at Lancaster University,
UK; Graham Bartram is retired as Senior Lecturer in German Studies
at Lancaster University, UK; and Galin Tihanov is the George
Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature at Queen Mary
University of London, UK.
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