3: “The Subjunctive of Possibilities” Robert Musil’s The Man without Qualities

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Preface xi
5. Introduction: The Making of Austro-Modernism 1
6. 1: The Mediated War Karl Kraus’s The Last Days of Mankind 19
7. 2: The Lost Hyphen Joseph Roth’s The Radetzky March 41
8. 3: “The Subjunctive of Possibilities” Robert Musil’s The Man without Qualities 71
9. 4: Coming of Age in Kakania Mother Tongue and Identity Theft in Canetti’s Autobiography 101
10. 5: The Last Habsburg Poet Paul Celan’s Love Poetry and the Limits of Language 125
11. Coda: Becoming a “Different” Person 153 Wittgenstein’s “Gospels” 153
12. Notes 171
13. Index 195