Diaries Robert Musil 1899-1942
New York: Basic Books, (1999). Hardcover. 4to. lix,557pp. Purple and gray paper-covered boards with blue lettering on spine in original printed dust jacket. With publisher's advertising band (belly-band). "The Diaries of Robert Musil are a secret look into the life and mind of a writer whose fiction embosies one of the twentieth century's daring leaps of consciousness...This selection from the Diaries is based on the exhaustive 1976 German edition prepared by Adolf Frisé. Most of its sketches, anectodes and personal reflections have been translated into English." Edited with and introduction by Mark Mirsky. Selected, translated and with a preface by Philip Payne. Minor staining on rear of dj. Dust jacket in very good, book in fine condition. Extensive publication with the diaries of Austrian writer Robert Mathias Edler von Musil (1880-1942). Musil's unfinished long novel "Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften" is generally considered to be one of the most important modernist novels. vg. Item #25607
ISBN: 0465016502
Price: $45.00