Robert Musil Libros

La presente edición recoge los artículos, conferencias y fragmentos ensayísticos de Robert Musil y reproduce el vol. VIII de Gesammelte Werke de la edición Rowohlt. Es la primera vez que aparecen traducidos al castellano de forma completa, pues hasta el momento sólo se había publicado algún texto singular. El lector puede acceder aquí a todos sus ensayos, algunos casos repiten ideas expuestas en los ensayos y artículos definitivos, en otros muchos son elaboraciones originales suficientemente acabadas como para poder ser leídas de manera autónoma. El editor ha preferido ofrecer el conjunto de textos y dejar al lector que sea él, si así lo estima conveniente, quien haga, con conocimiento de causa, la selección que desee. En este sentido, el editor espera poder ofrecer más adelante un volumen en el que se recojan citas, reflexiones, aforismos,etc.

El hombre sin atributos fue escrita entre 1930 y 1942 y quedó interrumpida por la muerte del autor. Los actores principales de esta tragicomedia monumental son: Ulrich, el hombre sin atributos, el matemático idealista, el sarcástico espectador; Leona y Bonadea, las dos amadas del matemático, desbancadas por Diotima, cerebro dirigente de la «Acción Paralela» y mujer cuya estupidez sólo es comparable a su hermosura; y Arnheim, el hombre con atributos, un millonario prusiano cuya conversación fluctúa entre las modernas técnicas de la inseminación artificial y las tallas medievales búlgaras.

Like his contemporary and rival Sigmund Freud, Robert Musil boldly explored the dark, irrational undercurrents of humanity. The Confusions of Young Törless , published in 1906 while he was a student, uncovers the bullying, snobbery, and vicious homoerotic violence at an elite boys academy. Unsparingly honest in its depiction of the author's tangled feelings about his mother, other women, and male bonding, it also vividly illustrates the crisis of a whole society, where the breakdown of traditional values and the cult of pitiless masculine strength were soon to lead to the cataclysm of the First World War and the rise of fascism. A century later, Musil's first novel still retains its shocking, prophetic power.

Los sabios normalmente prefieren hablar sobre la sabiduría en lugar de sobre la estupidez. En consecuencia, cuando el discípulo de Hegel y profesor en la Universidad de Halle, Johann Ed. Erdmann, anuncia en 1866 su tema: «Sobre la estupidez», éste es recibido con carcajadas. ¿Por qué? Una de las razones, tal como el propio Erdmann reconoce, podría ser que el tema de la estupidez nos recuerda nuestros propios defectos... Setenta años después, Musil retomará este objeto de análisis.

Tres mujeres es la historia de tres arquetipos: Grigia, La Portuguesa y Tonka. Musil es uno de esos artistas que se desenvuelven con gran facilidad a través de un personaje femenino, y en cambio sufren prejuicios literarios ante los caracteres masculinos. En esta obra, Musil, interesado en la psicología, vio que el mundo irracional, intuitivo y alienado en el que se desenvolvía la burguesía instigadora de la primera guerra mundial tomaba forma con mayor ajuste en heroínas que en héroes.

Contains: A Sort of Introduction The Like of it Now Happens (I)"It would be useless to attempt a synopsis of Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften, not only because of its length and complexity, but also because the real action lies not on the surface, in what the characters do (though that is often dramatic enough), but within, in their states of mind, the fluctuations of their emotions, their theories, and the counterpoint between the thoughts and the behaviour of them all, in themselves and in relation to each other, especially to the Man without Qualities himself, who is the nucleus, and in relation to the demands of the indefinable pattern of this world we live in."(From the Foreword by the translators)

Set in 1911, this collection features two experimental stories that delve into the complexities of love and temptation. "The Completion of Love" and "The Temptation of Quiet Veronica" showcase Robert Musil's early explorations of emotional and psychological themes, influenced by his relationship with his fiancé, Martha Marcovaldi. These narratives reflect Musil's commitment to understanding human experiences, laying the groundwork for his later, more extensive works.

This text presents passages selected from his daybooks, affording the reader insights into Musil's passage from a young scientist to a soldier in the World War I to budding novelist. The diaries serve as a first-hand document of life in "fin de siecle" Vienna and Austria during two world wars.

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 same name. For years Agathe and Ulrich have ignored each other, but when brother and sister find themselves reunited over the bier of their dead father, they are electrified. Each is the other’s spitting image, and Agathe, who has just separated from her husband, is even more defiant and inquiring than Ulrich. Beginning with a series of increasingly intense “holy conversations,” the two gradually enlarge the boundaries of sexuality, sensuality, identity, and understanding in pursuit of a new, true form of being that they are seeking to discover. Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities is perhaps the most profoundly exploratory and unsettling masterpiece of twentieth-century fiction. Agathe, or, The Forgotten Sister reveals with new clarity a particular dimension of this multidimensional book—the dimension that meant the most to Musil himself and that inspired some of his most searching writing. The outstanding translator Joel Agee captures the acuity, audacity, and unsettling poetry of a book that is meant to be nothing short of life-changing.