Posthumous Papers of a Living Author

by Musil, Robert; Wortsman, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780976395041
• ISBN10: 0976395045
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-06-01
• Publisher: Archipelago

Summary

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

Author Biography

Robert Musil (1880–1942), born in Vienna, was trained as a mathematician, behavioral psychologist, engineer, and philosopher. During WWI, he served as an officer in the Austrian Army on the Italian front. He died exiled and impoverished in Switzerland in 1942. Author of The Man Without Qualities, Young Törless, and Five Women, Musil is one of the towering pillars of twentieth-century modernism.

Recipient of the 2012 Gold Grand Prize for Best Travel Story of the Year, Peter Wortsman is the author of A Modern Way to Die: Small Stories and Microtales, the plays The Tattooed Man Tells All and Burning Words, the recent memoir Ghost Dance in Berlin: A Rhapsody in Gray, and the forthcoming novel Cold Earth Wanderers. His translations from the German include Heinrich Heine’s Travel Pictures, Selected Tales of the Brothers Grimm, Peter Altenberg’s Telegrams of the Soul, and Tales of the German Imagination: From The Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann, published by Penguin Classics.

Table of Contents

Flypaper	p. 3
Monkey Island	p. 6
Fishermen on the Baltic	p. 10
Inflation	p. 12
Can a horse laugh?	p. 14
Awakening	p. 17
Sheep, as seen in another light	p. 19
Sarcophagus cover	p. 21
Rabbit catastrophe	p. 23
The mouse	p. 27
Clearhearing	p. 30
Slovenian village funeral	p. 32
Maidens and heroes	p. 36
Boardinghouse nevermore	p. 38
Black magic	p. 53
Doors and portals	p. 59
Monuments	p. 64
The paintspreader	p. 69
A culture question	p. 73
Surrounded by poets and thinkers	p. 78
Art anniversary	p. 82
Binoculars	p. 87
It's lovely here	p. 95
Who made you, oh forest fair ...?	p. 99
Threatened Oedipus	p. 106
The giant Agoag	p. 113
A man without character	p. 118
A story over three centuries	p. 128
Children's story	p. 136
The blackbird	p. 145
Posthumous papers revisited	p. 171
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