11 results for '"Robert Musil"'

A philisophical erotic comedy of ideas in which the old world is threatened by new ideas of sexual freedom and scientific scepticism.

Product Description Ces études peuvent se lire comme la reconstitution d'un parcours, et même, pour parler comme l'auteur auquel elles sont consacrées, d'une aventure intellectuelle qui a...

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"We do not have too much intellect and too little soul, but too little precision in matters of the soul."—Robert Musil Best known as author of the novel The Man without Qualities, Robert Musil wrote...

Auto-da-Fé, Elias Canetti's only work of fiction, is a staggering achievement that puts him squarely in the ranks of major European writers such as Robert Musil and Hermann Broch. It is the story of...

Vineland, a zone of blessed anarchy in northern California, is the last refuge of hippiedom, a culture devastated by the sobriety epidemic, Reaganomics, and the Tube. Here, in an Orwellian 1984, Zoyd...

"Politics is will and not truth. A very primitive formulation, but rich in consequences." Robert Musil was keenly aware of literature's vulnerability to what he called "the over-reach and...

Die Beiträge dieses Sammelbandes setzen sich mit dem paradoxen Phänomen der intellektuellen Faszinationskraft des Nationalsozialismus auseinander. Im Vordergrund steht dabei neben dem moralisch und...

A defining work of twentieth-century modernism, now newly translated—a philosophical novel about the nature of consciousness, all centered around a character who is composed of absolute brain and...

"A brilliant selection . . . Canetti's range astonishes." —Claire Messud, Harper'sA career-spanning collection of writings by the Nobel laureate Elias Canetti, edited and introduced by Pulitzer Prize...