The World As Metaphor in Robert Musil's the Man Without Qualities: Possibility As Reality - Couverture souple

Grill, Professor Genese

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1640141278 ISBN 13 : 9781640141278

Editeur : Camden House Inc, 2022

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

GENESE GRILL (PhD CUNY Graduate Center) is an independent scholar and artist. She has written extensively on Musil and has published translations of several of his works.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Camden House Inc
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1640141278
• ISBN 13: 9781640141278
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 216
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