Precision and Soul

Essays and Addresses

By: Robert Musil, Burton Pike (Translator), David S. Luft (Translator)

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Paperback | 7 February 1995 | Edition Number 1

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"We do not have too much intellect and too little soul, but too little precision in matters of the soul."--Robert Musil

Best known as author of the novel The Man without Qualities, Robert Musil wrote these essays in Vienna and Berlin between 1911 and 1937. Offering a perspective on modern society and intellectual life, they are concerned with the crisis of modern culture as it manifests itself in science and mathematics, capitalism and nationalism, the changing roles of women and writers, and more. Writing to find his way in a world where moral systems everywhere were seemingly in decay, Musil strives to reconcile the ongoing conflict between functional relativism and the passionate search for ethical values.

Robert Musil was born in 1880 and died in 1942. His first novel, Young Törless, is available in English. A new two-volume translation by Burton Pike and Sophie Wilkins of The Man without Qualities is forthcoming from Alfred A. Knopf.

"Now we have these thirty-one invaluable and entertaining pieces, from an article on 'The Obscene and Pathological in Art' to the equally provocative talk 'On Stupidity,' which, with a new translation of The Man without Qualities forthcoming . . . amount to a literary event for the reader of English comparable to Constance Garnett's massive translation of Chekhov's stories."--Joseph Coates, Chicago Tribune

"Musil is one of the few great moderns, one of the handful who ventured to confront the issues that shape and define our time. . . . He has a range and a striking capacity every bit as great as that of Mann, Joyce, or Beckett."--Boston Review

"These essays are crucial in understanding a writer and critic whose lifelong task was an attempt to resolve the dichotomy between the precision of scientific form and the soul--the matter of life and art."--Choice

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Non-Fiction Literature, Poetry & Plays Non-Fiction Prose Literary Essays Fiction Fiction in Translation and Short Stories Short Stories History & Criticism of Literature Literary Studies of Fiction General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1900 to Current Sociology & Anthropology

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Foreword
Introduction
The Obscene and Pathological in Art
Novellas Profile of a Program Politics in Austria
The Religious Spirit, Modernism, and Metaphysics On Robert Musil's Books Political
Confessions of a Young Man Moral Fruitfulness
The Mathematical Man [On Criticism]
The Goals of Literature [On the Essay]
Literary Chronicle Commentary on a Metapsychics Sketch of What the Writer Knows [Psychology and Literature]
Cinema or Theater Literati and Literature
Anschluss with Germany Buridan's
Austrian "Nation" as Ideal and as Reality Helpless Europe Mind and Experience
The German as Symptom Toward a New Aesthetic Woman Yesterday and Tomorrow
Ruminations of a Slow-witted Mind Address at the Memorial Service for Rilke in Berlin
The Serious Writer in Our Time [Lecture, Paris] On Stupidity
Musil's Sketch for an Introduction to a Planned Volume of Essays
Dates of First Publication
Notes
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