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Ulrich heißt der 'Mann ohne Eigenschaften', er ist Mathematiker, Philosoph und stellt sich permanent selbst in Frage. Ulrich steht für Robert Musils literarisches Vorhaben, die Wirklichkeit als das ziellose Ergebnis einer Überfülle von Möglichkeit...

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När Robert Musil tar sig an en av människans trognaste följeslagare, dumheten, är syftet inte först och främst att beskriva hur den kommer till uttryck utan snarare vad den är. Han döljer inte svårigheterna med att nagla fast den och inte heller p...

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"Ett lågtryck som befann sig över Atlanten rörde sig i riktning öster ut mot en högtrycksrygg över Ryssland och visade ännu ingen tendens att förskjuta sig mot norr för att undvika denna. Isotermer och isoterer fyllde sin funktion" Så börjar fortf...

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Ulrich heißt der 'Mann ohne Eigenschaften', er ist Mathematiker, Philosoph und stellt sich permanent selbst in Frage. Ulrich steht für Robert Musils literarisches Vorhaben, die Wirklichkeit als das ziellose Ergebnis einer Überfülle von Möglichkeit...

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¿Ett lågtryck som befann sig över Atlanten rörde sig i riktning öster ut mot en högtrycksrygg över Ryssland och visade ännu ingen tendens att förskjuta sig mot norr för att undvika denna. Isotermer och isoterer fyllde sin funktion¿¿ Så börjar fort...

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¿Ett lågtryck som befann sig över Atlanten rörde sig i riktning öster ut mot en högtrycksrygg över Ryssland och visade ännu ingen tendens att förskjuta sig mot norr för att undvika denna. Isotermer och isoterer fyllde sin funktion¿¿ Så börjar fort...

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As the nineteenth century draws to an end, young Torless is sent to a military boarding school for the sons of the nobility on the eastern outreaches of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Far from his comfortable, free-thinking bourgeois home and left t...

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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...

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Although known principally for his modernist masterpiece,  The Man Without Qualities , Robert Musil (1880–1942) was also a playwright and drama critic. Musil's plays and theatrical investigations, written between 1921–1929, are in...

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Based on the author's own experiences at an Austrian military academy; this novel 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 ot...

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Set in Vienna on the eve of World War I, this great novel of ideas tells the story of Ulrich, ex-soldier and scientist, seducer and skeptic, who finds himself drafted into the grandiose plans for the 70th jubilee of the Emperor Franz Josef. This n...

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'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 an...

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At a bleak, isolated military school on the fringes of the Austro- Hungarian Empire, four young cadets - Torless, Beineberg, Reiting and their victim Basini - drift even further away from their school- fellows into a private world of ritual, secre...

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'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 Trless is an intense study...

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'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 Trless is an intense study...

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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 these essays in Vienna and Berlin bet...

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Robert Musil is ranked alongside Marcel Proust and James Joyce for his monumental, unfinished novel, The Man Without Qualities. His Diaries, a distillation of forty-three years of material, are valuable in a number of ways: as a first-hand histori...

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- Presents important and scholarly criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature - The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism - Contains notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life,...

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Rejecting cries of gloom and doom, Hope for a Heated Planet shows how the fight against global warming can be won by the grassroots efforts of individuals. Robert K. Musil, who led the Nobel Peace Prize-winning organization Physicians for Social R...

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In Rachel Carson and Her Sisters, Robert K. Musil redefines the achievements and legacy of environmental pioneer and scientist Rachel Carson, linking her work to a wide network of American women activists and writers and introducing her to a new, ...

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Choice Outstanding Academic Title"e;In Rachel Carson and Her Sisters, Musil fills the gap by placing Carson's achievements in a wider context, weaving connections from the past through the present. Readers will find new insight into Carso...

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"In Rachel Carson and Her Sisters, Musil fills the gap by placing Carson's achievements in a wider context, weaving connections from the past through the present. Readers will find new insight into Carson and contemporary figures she influenc...

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Spring arrives in our Nation's Capital and life emerges from its slumber. Explore Washington in with acclaimed author Robert K. Musil. Through sensitive observations and stunning photographs, ramble with him in this intimate and history-laden natu...

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Playful reflections on humanity and art. A quest for the essential and voyage into the minute.

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the Unit...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the Unit...

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