“Mind and Experience: a Note for Readers Who Have Escaped the Decline of the West (Geist und Erfahrung: Anmerkung für Leser, welche dem Untergang des Abendlandes entronnen sind)”
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Robert Musil
Robert Mathias Musil was an Austrian philosophical writer of novels, short stories and plays. His unfinished novel, The Man Without Qualities, is generally considered to be one of the most important and influential modernist novels. Musil published his first novel, The Confusions of Young Törless, in 1906.
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culture · Austrian philosophical writer (1880–1942) · writer · librarian · novelist · playwright · screenwriter · essayist · engineer · prose writer · editor · critic · also Robert Musil, Musil
Born 6 November 1880 · Died 15 April 1942 · Q78487
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Publishers Weekly: Books by Robert Musil and Complete Book Reviews
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1943· 1 entry
In Lausanne, Martha published a 462-page collection of material from his literary remains, including the 20 galley chapters withdrawn from Part III before Volume 2 appeared in 1933, as well as drafts of the final incomp
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1942· 1 entry
Died 1942-04-15.
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1938· 1 entry
When Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany, Musil and his Jewish wife, Martha, left for exile in Switzerland, where he died at the age of 61
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1936· 1 entry
Musil suffered a stroke while swimming in Vienna
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1935· 1 entry
In which he spoke in favor of artistic independence against the claims of the state, class, nation, and religion
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1933· 1 entry
Career landmark: Nazi book burnings.
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1932· 1 entry
The Robert Musil Society was founded in Berlin on the initiative of Mann
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1930· 1 entry
And 1933, his masterpiece, The Man Without Qualities (Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften) was published in Berlin in two volumes consisting of three parts, running into 1,074 pages: Volume 1 (Part I: A Sort of Introduction, and
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1929· 1 entry
Awarded Gerhart Hauptmann prize (1929).
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1927· 1 entry
Signed a declaration of support for the Austrian Social Democratic Party
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1923· 1 entry
Awarded Kleist Prize (1923).
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1916· 1 entry
Musil visited Prague and met Franz Kafka, whose work he held in high esteem
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1913· 1 entry
“The Religious Spirit, Modernism, and Metaphysics”
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1909· 1 entry
Musil completed his doctorate, with a thesis on the philosopher Ernst Mach, and Professor Alexius Meinong offered him a position at the University of Graz, which he turned down to concentrate on writing
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1908· 1 entry
Studied at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (1903–1908).
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1906· 1 entry
And her death in 1907 may have been due to infection from Musil
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1905· 1 entry
Musil met his future wife, Martha Marcovaldi (née Heimann, 21 January 1874 – 6 November 1949)
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1891· 1 entry
Musil's father was appointed to the chair of Mechanical Engineering at the German Technical University in Brünn/Brno and, later, he was raised to hereditary nobility in the Austro-Hungarian Empire
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1880· 1 entry
Born 1880-11-06.
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