Subject Without Nation
Subtitle: Robert Musil and the History of Modern Identity (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: May 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780822325703
Subjects: European history: from c 1900 -; History of ideas, intellectual history; Literary studies: general; 20th century; Mann ohne Eigenschaften; Identity (Psychology) in liter; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Politics/International Relations; Austria; Musil, Robert,; European - General; German Studies; Literary Studies/American Lite; Philosophy; 1880-1942; 1880-1942.; Identity (Psychology) in literature
First sentence: In 1932, the year Robert Musil completed the second volume of The Man Without Qualities, Ludwig Bauer observed, "The air smells of dullness and stupidity."