Five Women - Softcover

Musil, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1567924018 ISBN 13: 9781567924015

Publisher: Verba Mundi, 2010

Synopsis

The Austrian Robert Musil (1880-1942), a central figure in the modernist movement, is known primarily for his magnum opus, The Man Without Qualities. But here, in these five stories-stories as crucial to the understanding of The Man Without Qualities (and Musil's immense literary influence and significance) as Joyce's Dubliners is to Ulysses, he displays another face, one that is by turn extravagant, sensual, mystical, and autobiographical. As Frank Kermode notes in his preface, these stories "are elaborate attempts to use fiction for its true purposes, the discovery and regeneration of the human world." In that redefinition of fiction, Robert Musil's name is writ large. Five Women has gone through three printings as a Godine Nonpareil book. We are now proud to reissue it as the newest edition to the Verba Mundi library of modern world literature. A Verba Mundi book by David R. Godine.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert Musil is widely considered to be one of the most important authors in the development of the modernist novel. During his lifetime, however, he made little money from his writing, despite his nomination for the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died relatively unknown and remained so until he was rediscovered in the 1950s. His eight books have since reappeared in print in several languages.

Language Notes:

Text: English, German (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: Verba Mundi
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1567924018
• ISBN 13: 9781567924015
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 224