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Agathe, or the Forgotten Sister by Robert Musil; Joel Agee
$37.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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
Flypaper by Robert Musil
$5.00 AUD
Category: Classics
'They no longer hold themselves up with all their might, but sink a little and at that moment appear totally human'. Of the very first rank of prose stylists, Robert Musil captures a scene's every telling detail and symbolic aspect with a precise and remarkable beauty. In these nine stories and essays, ...Show more
The Confusions of Young Torless by Robert Musil
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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; Mike Mitchell; Ritchie Robertson
$22.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'between the life we live and the life we feel...there is the invisible border, like a narrow gate'Set in a boarding school in a remote area of the Habsburg Empire at the turn of the last century, The Confusions of Young Torless is an intense study of an adolescent's psychological development as he stru ...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
$39.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
$45.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
" 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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