Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

Preface

pp ix-x

Acknowledgments

pp xi-xii

List of Abbreviations

pp xiii-xiv

Musil's Principal Works

pp xv-xxi

Miscellaneous Frontmatter

pp xxii-xxii

Introduction - The Symbiosis of Robert Musil's Life and Works

pp 1-50

Musil's Life: Experiences, Reflections, Emotions of an Intellectual

pp 51-52

1 - Robert Musil: Literature and Politics

pp 53-86

2 - Robert Musil's Diaries: Medium between Life and Literature

pp 87-116

3 - Robert Musil in the Garden of Conservatism

pp 117-148

Literary Works before Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften

pp 149-150

4 - Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß: Adolescent Sexuality, the Authoritarian Mindset, and the Limits of Language

pp 151-174

5 - Musil's “Die Vollendung der Liebe”: Experience Analyzed and Reconstituted

pp 175-198

6 - “Shifts in Emphasis”: Robert Musil's Die Schwärmer and Twentieth-Century Drama

pp 199-222

7 - Robert Musil's Novellas in the Collection Drei Frauen

pp 223-248

Perspectives on Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften

pp 249-250

8 - The Genesis of Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften

pp 251-284

9 - The Contribution of Biographical Research to the Understanding of Characters and Themes of Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften

pp 285-312

10 - Figuring Thought in Culture: “Utopia” in Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften from the Perspective of Kulturwissenschaft

pp 313-332

11 - The “Other” Musil: Robert Musil and Mysticism

pp 333-354

12 - Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften: Unfinished or without End?

pp 355-370

13 - The “Finale” of Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften: Competing Editions and the “Telos” of the Narrative

pp 371-394

14 - “Reception without Qualities”: Robert Musil's Impact on Austrian and German Writers after 1945

pp 395-408

Select Bibliography

pp 409-424

Robert Musil's Life: A Chronology

pp 425-430

Notes on the Contributors

pp 431-434

Index

pp 435-448