Robert Musil

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  • Bibliography:
    16 Books
  • First Book:
    February 1982
  • Latest Book:
    December 2019
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Book List in Order: 16 titles

  • Young Torless

    Four adolescent boys in an Austrian military school act out the rites of passage in brutal, disturbed rituals which foreshadow the conditions and way of thought which led to a Nazi takeover thirty years later...

  • Enthusiasts

  • Selected Writings

  • The Man without Qualities

    Ulrich has no qualities in the sense that his self-awareness is completely divorced from his abilities. He is drawn into a project, the "Parallel Campaign", to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Emperor Franz Joseph's coronation in 1918....

  • The Posthumous Papers of a Living Author

    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- pleti...

  • The Man Without Qualities Vol. 1

    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 new ...

  • The Man Without Qualities Vol. 2

  • Musil Diaries

    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 historical...

  • The Confusions of Young Torless



  • Five Women

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    Extravagant, sensual, mystical, and autobiographical, these stories by a modernist master are, as Frank Kermode notes in his preface, ""elaborate attempts to use fiction for its true purposes, the discovery and regeneration of the human world."" ...

  • Man without Qualities, Vol. 1

    Along the sun-spattered boulevards of Vienna in the year 1913, in its gayest cafés and greyest prisons, in its most brilliant salons and dingiest kitchens, the great Austrian writer, Robert Musil, brings the reader of The Man Without Qualities face ...

  • The Confusions of Young Master Torless

    Musil's limpid, psychological evocation of adolescent sexuality and its often sadistic eroticism which anticipates the carnage of both World Wars. As the nineteenth century draws to an end, young Törless is sent to a military boarding school for ...

  • Three Women

    Written by the great Austrian novelist in 1924, "Three Women"consisting of three long stories, "Grigia," "The Portuguese Lady," and "Tonka"was written just a few years prior to Robert Musil's twentieth-century masterpiece "The Man Without Qualitie...

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  • Intimate Ties

    A master of high modernist literature explores female sexuality and desire through the eyes of two women -- one, married and unfaithful; the other, caught in a love triangle -- in these two erotic novellas First published in 1911, Intimate Ties is Ro...

  • Agathe, or the Forgotten Sister

    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 s...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Robert Musil has published 16 books.

Robert Musil does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Agathe, or the Forgotten Sister, was published in December 2019.

The first book by Robert Musil, Young Torless, was published in February 1982.

No. Robert Musil does not write books in series.
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