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Introduction: Parallel Actions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2013

Tim Mehigan
Affiliation:
University of Melbourne
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Ich glaube nicht einmal, daß ein Künstler sein eigenes Werk versteht, wenn es fertig ist. Es kommt vielleicht für die menschliche Entwicklung auch gar nicht darauf an, was der wirkliche Inhalt eines Kunstwerks ist, sondern nur auf das, was dafür gehalten wird; jeder Einzelne, jede Epoche tritt mit anderen Schlüsseln heran und erschließt sich etwas anderes, das Kunstwerk ist in dieser Hinsicht ein Ästhetikum an sich, das es so wenig gibt wie das Ding an sich in der Welt der Wirklichkeit. Entkleidet man dies der Paradoxie, so erscheint das Verstehen des Kunstwerks einfach nicht als ein unendlicher Prozeß, der sich mit immer kleineren Abweichungen einem adäquaten Erfassen nähert, sondern als eine Mehrheit solcher Prozesse mit ganz verschiedenem Ergebnis

— Robert Musil

THE APPEARANCE OF THE first part of Robert Musil's Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften in 1930 with the Rowohlt-Verlag in Berlin was something of a sensation. The novel immediately aroused great excitement in literary circles, and was extensively reviewed in the press and in journals in Musil's native Austria and in Germany. With this major new work of fiction Musil finally appeared to deliver upon the promise that had struck the literary critic Alfred Kerr upon reading drafts of Musil's first novel Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß in 1906. Rowohlt brought out a second part to the new work at the end of 1932, only months before Hitler's ascension to power in Germany.

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Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2003

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