A Companion to the Works of Robert Musil Book

Preface     ix
Acknowledgments     xi
List of Abbreviations     xiii
Musil's Principal Works   Philip Payne     xv
Introduction: The Symbiosis of Robert Musil's Life and Works   Philip Payne     1
Musil's Life: Experiences, Reflections, Emotions of an Intellectual
Robert Musil: Literature and Politics   Klaus Amann     53
Robert Musil's Diaries: Medium between Life and Literature   Philip Payne     87
Robert Musil in the Garden of Conservatism   Galin Tihanov     117
Literary Works before Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften
Die Verwirrungen des Zoglings Torless: Adolescent Sexuality, the Authoritarian Mindset, and the Limits of Language   Matthias Luserke-Jaqui     151
Musil's "Die Vollendung der Liebe": Experience Analyzed and Reconstituted   Silvia Bonacchi   Philip Payne     175
"Shifts in Emphasis": Robert Musil's Die Schwarmer and Twentieth-Century Drama   Christian Rogowski     199
Robert Musil's Novellas in the Collection Drei Frauen   Peter Henninger     223
Perspectives on Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften
The Genesis of Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften   Walter Fanta     251
The Contribution of Biographical Research to the Understanding of Characters and Themes of DerMann ohne Eigenschaften   Karl Corino     285
Figuring Thought in Culture: "Utopia" in Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften from the Perspective of Kulturwissenschaft   Matthias Luserke-Jaqui   Philip Payne     313
The "Other" Musil: Robert Musil and Mysticism   Genese Grill     333
Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften: Unfinished or without End?   Burton Pike     355
The "Finale" of Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften: Competing Editions and the "Telos" of the Narrative   Walter Fanta     371
"Reception without Qualities": Robert Musil's Impact on Austrian and German Writers after 1945   Rudiger Gorner     395
Select Bibliography     409
Robert Musil's Life: A Chronology   Karl Corino     425
Notes on the Contributors     431
Index     435