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<p>The <i>Diaries of Robert Musil</i> are a secret look into the life and mind of a writer whose fiction embodies one of the twentieth century’s daring leaps of consciousness. Ranked with Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, and James Joyce in the pantheon of European modernists, Musil attempted to apply the precision of his scientific training to the utmost bounds of the imagination. In a series of notebooks kept through most of his literary career, Musil reflected, often through stunning epigrams, on his childhood, his erotic life, his methods of creative thought and his fellow writers. An indispensable guide to his fiction, essays and plays, the pages of the diaries provide a skeleton key for his complex unfinished masterpiece <i>The Man Without Qualities.</i> Known for extreme personal reticence among his contemporaries, Musil in the diaries (which were never intended for publication), speaks nakedly of himself and the chaotic events he lived through.This selection from the diaries is based on the exhaustive 1976 German edition prepared by Adolf Frisé. Most of its sketches, anecdotes and personal reflections have been translated into English. An acute political and cultural observer, Mu

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Author

Robert Musil, Philip Payne (transl. + preface), Mark Mirsky (ed. + intro)

Publisher

Basic Civitas Books

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780465016501

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Medical, Memoir

Rating

4.24 / 5 (92 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13