Robert Musil

This long-awaited new translation of Musil's The Man Without Qualities is the first in English to include the core of the final unpublished chapters.

The Man Without Qualities

Presents the story of bullying, snobbery, and homoerotic violence at an elite European boys academy, reflecting the attitudes and cultural changes that led to the rise of fascism.

The Confusions of Young Törless

Die Donaumonarchie im Jahre 1913/14 und ihre "kranke" Gesellschaft wird zum Spiegelbild für den Untergang einer Epoche.

Roman : aus dem Nachlaß

Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften

Niteliksiz adam

Roman

Üç kadın

L'uomo senza qualità

Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törless

From one of the greatest novelists of the 20th century, these chiseled essays and sketches written between 1920 to 1929 are playful, moving, exploratory and full of soul and humor. In playful reflections on art and humanity, Musil describes a fly's tragic struggle with flypaper, the guests in a Roman boarding house, the laughter of a horse and more.

Posthumous Papers of a Living Author

Ritchie Robertson

Mike Mitchell

'between the life we live and the life we feel...there is the invisible border, like a narrow gate' Set in a boarding school in a remote area of the Habsburg Empire at the turn of the last century, The Confusions of Young Törless is an intense study of an adolescent's psychological development as he struggles to come to terms with his conflicting emotions. Through his relationship with two other boys Törless is led into sadistic and sexual encounters with a third pupil which both repel and fascinate him. Estranged from everyday life, Törless gradually learns to accept his experiences and describe them with analytical precision. The novel is based on the author's own experiences at an Austrian military academy. A school story with a difference, Törless extends the scope of fiction with its non-judgemental presentation of transgressive sexuality and violence. It is a profoundly disturbing exploration of a non-moral outlook on life and of dictatorial attitudes that prefigure the outbreak of the First World War and the rise of fascism. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Best known for his magnum opus, The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil is a central figure in the modernist movement, as important to the development of 20th-century literature as Joyce, Kafka, Mann, or Proust. In Five Women - a book as crucial to the understanding of The Man Without Qualities as Joyce's Dubliners is to Ulysses - he displays a face that is by turns extravagant, sensual, mystical, and autobiographical.

Five Women

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.

Or, The Forgotten Sister

Agathe

Der Mann Ohne Eigenschaften

Genc Törlessin Buhranlari

Diary entries look at Musil's life, times, and creative process

Robert Musil

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