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 Musil's Man Without Qualities (1995) is a chapter titled ""Agathe Finds Ulrich's Diary."" One passage reads: ""The notes that she took up in her hands, with many...
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Robert Musil, Author, Eithne Wilkins, Translator, Ernst Kaiser, Translator David R. Godine Publisher $14.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-56792-075-8
The recent translations of The Man Without Qualities and Musil's Diaries have shown why the Austrian writer is often thought of as Germanic literature's Proust, and this newly translated English version of his five hefty stories demonstrates that...
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Robert Musil, Author, Sophie Wilkins, Translator, Burton Pike, Translator Vintage Books USA $23 (752p) ISBN 978-0-679-76787-9
This edition of Musil's classic modernist novel features the complete text in a new translation, as well as extensive supplementary material. (Dec.)
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Robert Musil, Author, Peter Wortsman, Translator Eridanos Press $21 (145p) ISBN 978-0-941419-00-0
Acclaimed for The Man Without Qualities, a classic German novel of our century, Musil (1880-1942) published this witty collection of ""posthumous'' pieces in 1936. People, life, art and things are their resonant subjects. ``Doors and Portals''...
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Robert Musil, trans. from the German by Peter Wortsman. Archipelago, $16 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1939810-23-6
Best known for his unfinished epic, The Man Without Qualities, Musil’s second published work, from 1911, is two difficult, modernist novellas, both dealing with the psyches of women. In the first, and superior, novella, “The Culmination of Love,”...
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Robert Musil, trans. from the German by Joel Agee. New York Review Books, $18.95 trade paper (464p) ISBN 978-1-68137-383-6
In this intriguing amendment to a towering work of modernism, Agee reorganizes
the second volume of Musil’s The Man Without Qualities, left unfinished at the time of Musil’s death in 1942. The result, which incorporates the author’s notes and never-
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