Posthumous Papers of a Living Author

2012-04-21 Fiction

Author : Robert Musil
Release : 2012-04-21
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 488/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Posthumous Papers of a Living Author written by Robert Musil. This book was released on 2012-04-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of exploratory pieces, short stories, and reflections was originally published in Zurich in 1936. It was the last volume Robert Musil published before his sudden death in 1942. Musil had begun to fathom the impossibility of com- pleting his monumental masterpiece The Man Without Qualities and this volume reveals a radically different aspect of his work. Musil observes a fly’s tragic struggle with flypaper, the laughter of a horse; he peers through microscopes and telescopes, dissecting both large and small. Musil’s quest for the essential is a voyage into the minute.

Flypaper

2013-08-01 Fiction

Author : Robert Musil
Release : 2013-08-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 439/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Flypaper written by Robert Musil. This book was released on 2013-08-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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, he considers holidaymakers and stone monuments, tales of war and blackbirds, and the great pathos of a tiny death: a fly's impossible fight against the grip of flypaper. This book includes Flypaper, Monkey Island, Fisherman on the Baltic, Sheep, As Seen in Another Light, Sarcophagus Cover, Monuments, The Paint Spreader, It's Lovely Here and The Blackbird.

Agathe

2019-12-17 Fiction

Author : Robert Musil
Release : 2019-12-17
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 831/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Agathe written by Robert Musil. This book was released on 2019-12-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of 'A Man without Qualities,' a novel about spirituality in the modern world. Agathe is the sister of Ulrich, the restless and elusive “man without qualities” at the center of Robert Musil’s great, unfinished novel of the same name. For years Agathe and Ulrich have ignored each other, but when brother and sister find themselves reunited over the bier of their dead father, they are electrified. Each is the other’s spitting image, and Agathe, who has just separated from her husband, is even more defiant and inquiring than Ulrich. Beginning with a series of increasingly intense “holy conversations,” the two gradually enlarge the boundaries of sexuality, sensuality, identity, and understanding in pursuit of a new, true form of being that they are seeking to discover. Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities is perhaps the most profoundly exploratory and unsettling masterpiece of twentieth-century fiction. Agathe, or, The Forgotten Sister reveals with new clarity a particular dimension of this multidimensional book—the dimension that meant the most to Musil himself and that inspired some of his most searching writing. The outstanding translator Joel Agee captures the acuity, audacity, and unsettling poetry of a book that is meant to be nothing short of life-changing.

Phoenix

1972 Biography & Autobiography

Author : David Herbert Lawrence
Release : 1972
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 115/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Phoenix written by David Herbert Lawrence. This book was released on 1972. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Posthumous Papers

2012-11-29 Fiction

Author : Robert Barnard
Release : 2012-11-29
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 758/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Posthumous Papers written by Robert Barnard. This book was released on 2012-11-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There were two Mrs Machins, relicts of the talented working-class writer Walter Machin, who was just about to be immortalised by the literary establishment. Viola was large, overbearing and, even in her seventies, still voluptuous. Hilda, the first (and divorced) Mrs Machin, was perky, sharp and the guardian of the deceased Walter’s literary papers. For ten years the two ‘widows’ had lived together in the same house, not speaking to each other, but jealously guarding his memory and literary reputation. But before the Machin legend could really take off, there was a fire – and a murder. One of the Mrs Machins was silenced for good, and slowly, from the past, emerged a fascinating and intriguing assortment of characters. Somewhere, in their memories of Walter Machin, lay the catastrophic secret that had led to murder. ‘A literary whodunit – with an unusual ending’ London Mystery Selection ‘Freshly written with lots of sly fun’ Guardian ‘Finely crafted and intriguing’ Booklist ‘A witty, well-written and intriguing story’ Times Literary Supplement

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