World as Metaphor in Robert Musil's The Man without Qualities

The first study to utilize the Klagenfurt Edition of Musil''s Nachlass offers a close reading of textual variations, emphasizing Musil''s commitment to the artist''s role in re-creating the world.

Robert Musil, known to be a scientific and philosophical thinker, was committed to aesthetics as a process of experimental creation of an ever-shifting reality. Musil wanted, above all, to be a creative w...