Robert Musil, Author, Ed M. Mirsky, Author, Mark Jay Mirsky, Editor Basic Books $40 (624p) ISBN 978-0-465-01650-1 In the ""Posthumous Papers"" section of Burton Pike's impressive two-volume edition of ...

The first two parts of Musil’s magnum opus, when they appeared in 1930, introduced a revolutionary conception of the novel. He sought to represent ideas as they are felt, instinctively and emotionally ...

One is mistaken in calling this a story of disdain about boarding school life. Robert Musil's debut novel is about power and abuse, of cadets as sadistic torturers. It was a literary prophecy of the ...

William Boyd, Margaret Drabble and Philipp Blom join Matthew Sweet to discuss one of the masterpieces of 20th-century European fiction, Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities. Show more Novelists ...

Aquarela is a movie about water...filmed at 96 frames per second. Swive at The Sam Wannamaker Playhouse, Robert Musil's Agathe, Theaster Gates at Tate L:iverpool, Sticks and Stones Show more Aquarela ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Can you remember the people that you went to school with - the nice ones as well as the class bullies who enjoyed torturing those who were perceived as weaker? Such bullies loom large in "The ...

In the quartet of great 20 th-century modernist writers that includes James Joyce, Franz Kafka and Marcel Proust, Robert Musil remains the most enigmatic member. That he failed to achieve ...