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 His Diaries, a distillation of forty-three years of material, are valuable in a number of ways: as a first-hand historical document of life in twentieth-century central Europe, as a kind of unwitting autobiography of a great novelist, and as a writer's notebook that details the moods of artistic adventure.

Readers will gain keen insights into Musil's passage from scientist, to soldier, to novelist, in honest passages that reveal the man in all his humor, ambition, frustration, and transcendence.

ISBN	0465016510	Pages	624
ISBN13	9780465016518 (What's this?)	Volumes	1
Publisher	The Perseus Books Group	Weight (grammes)	500
Imprint	Basic Books	Published in	New York
Format	Paperback	Height (mm)	236
Publication date	19 Nov 1999	Width (mm)	188
Translator	Mark Mirsky	Spine width (mm)	40
DEWEY	838.91203	Academic level	General
DEWEY edition	DC21

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Robert Musil, 1899-1941

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