Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Abbreviations xiii
6. Musil’s Principal Works xv
7. Introduction: The Symbiosis of Robert Musil’s Life and Works 1
8. Musil’s Life: Experiences, Reflections, Emotions of an Intellectual
9. 1: Robert Musil: Literature and Politics 53
10. 2: Robert Musil’s Diaries: Medium between Life and Literature 87
11. 3: Robert Musil in the Garden of Conservatism 117
12. Literary Works before Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften
13. 4: Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß: Adolescent Sexuality, the Authoritarian Mindset, and the Limits of Language 151
14. 5: Musil’s “Die Vollendung der Liebe”: Experience Analyzed and Reconstituted 175
15. 6: “Shifts in Emphasis”: Robert Musil’s Die Schwärmer and Twentieth-Century Drama 199
16. 7: Robert Musil’s Novellas in the Collection Drei Frauen 223
17. Perspectives on Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften
18. 8: The Genesis of Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften 251
19. 9: The Contribution of Biographical Research to the Understanding of Characters and Themes of Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften 285
20. 10: Figuring Thought in Culture: “Utopia” in Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften from the Perspective of Kulturwissenschaft 313
21. 11: The “Other” Musil: Robert Musil and Mysticism 333
22. 12: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften: Unfinished or without End? 355
23. 13: The “Finale” of Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften: Competing Editions and the “Telos” of the Narrative 371
24. 14: “Reception without Qualities”: Robert Musil’s Impact on Austrian and German Writers after 1945 395
25. Select Bibliography 409
26. Robert Musil’s Life: A Chronology 425
27. Contributors 431
28. Index 435