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Agathe, or the Forgotten Sister by Robert Musil; Joel Agee
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics
From the author of 'A Man without Qualities,' a novel about spirituality in the modern world. Agathe is the sister of Ulrich, the so-called "man without qualities" who is the major character in Robert Musil's great, unfinished novel of that name. Ulrich is intellectual and skeptical and rebellious and ...Show more
Five Women by Robert Musil; Eithne Wilkins (Translator); Ernst Kaiser (Translator); Rivka Galchen (Contribution by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Riverrun Editions Ser.
The stories here collected under the title Five Women combine two different volumes. All together, these stories, each of which (as the reader will guess) has a woman at the apparent centre of its gaze, has the feel of a series study, or of a natural history, though one performed in a strange and not en ...Show more
The Confusions of Young Torless by Robert Musil
$8.00 AUD
Category: Classics
As the nineteenth century draws to an end, young Torless is sent to a military boarding school for the sons of the nobility on the eastern outreaches of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Far from his comfortable, free-thinking bourgeois home and left to his own devices, he experiences the joy, pain and self- ...Show more
The Confusions of Young Törless by Robert Musil; Ernst Kaiser (Translator); Eithne Wilkins (Translator); Jeremy Adler (Contribution by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
The Confusions of Young Torless is a taut, powerful depiction of teenage masculinity in this short novel set in an Austrian military academy. An unpopular boy is gradually bullied and humiliated by a coterie of better-off classmates until the almost unbearable conclusion. This was the work which made Mu ...Show more
The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
$32.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Picador Classic
With an introduction by Jonathan Lethem It is 1913, and Viennese high society is determined to find an appropriate way of celebrating the seventieth jubilee of the accession of Emperor Franz Josef. But as the aristocracy tries to salvage something illustrious out of the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian ...Show more
The Man Without Qualities, Volume 1 by Professor Robert Musil
$33.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Man Without Qualities
"Musil belongs in the company of Joyce, Proust, Kafka, and Svevo. . . . (This translation) is a literay and intellectual event of singular importance."--New Republic.
The Man without Qualities: Vol 2 Into the Millennium, from the Posthumous Papers by Robert Musil
$42.50 AUD
Category: Classics
" Musil belongs in the company of Joyce, Proust, Kafka, and Svevo. . . . (This translation) is a literay and intellectual event of singular importance." --New Republic.
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