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Robert Musil (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

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In addition to the short novel with which he began his literary career and the massive unfinished work that occupied the later years of his life, Robert Musil wrote a dissertation on the Austrian philosopher Ernst Mach, Beitrag zur Beurteilung der Lehren Machs (1908); a number of short stories and novellas, including those published in Vereinigungen (1911; unifications) and Drei Frauen (1924; three women) and later published in English under the title Five Women (1966); two plays, Die Schwärmer (1921; the enthusiasts) and...

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