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Agathe, or the Forgotten Sister by Robert Musil; Joel Agee
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the author of 'A Man without Qualities,' a novel about spirituality in the modern world. Agathe is the sister of Ulrich, the so-called "man without qualities" who is the major character in Robert Musil's great, unfinished novel of that name. Ulrich is intellectual and skeptical and rebellious and ...Show more
Five Women by Robert Musil; Eithne Wilkins (Translator); Ernst Kaiser (Translator); Rivka Galchen (Contribution by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Riverrun Editions Ser.
The stories here collected under the title Five Women combine two different volumes. All together, these stories, each of which (as the reader will guess) has a woman at the apparent centre of its gaze, has the feel of a series study, or of a natural history, though one performed in a strange and not en ...Show more
Flypaper by Robert Musil
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Category: Fiction
'They no longer hold themselves up with all their might, but sink a little and at that moment appear totally human'. Of the very first rank of prose stylists, Robert Musil captures a scene's every telling detail and symbolic aspect with a precise and remarkable beauty. In these nine stories and essays, ...Show more
Intimate Ties by Musil Robert
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Category: Fiction
Two erotic novellas by one of the masters of high modernism.Two erotic novellas by one of the masters of high modernism.First published in 1911, Intimate Ties is Robert Musil's second book, consisting of two novellas, "The Culmination of Love" and "The Temptation of Silent Veronica." Each revolves aroun ...Show more
The Confusions of Young Törless by Robert Musil; Ernst Kaiser (Translator); Eithne Wilkins (Translator); Jeremy Adler (Contribution by)
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Category: Fiction
The Confusions of Young Torless is a taut, powerful depiction of teenage masculinity in this short novel set in an Austrian military academy. An unpopular boy is gradually bullied and humiliated by a coterie of better-off classmates until the almost unbearable conclusion. This was the work which made Mu ...Show more
The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
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Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by Jonathan Lethem It is 1913, and Viennese high society is determined to find an appropriate way of celebrating the seventieth jubilee of the accession of Emperor Franz Josef. But as the aristocracy tries to salvage something illustrious out of the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian ...Show more
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