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Five Women by Robert Musil
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75The stories here collected under the title Five Women combine two different volumes. All together, these stories, each of which (as the reader will guess) has a woman at the apparent centre of its... -
The Confusions of Young Toerless by Robert Musil
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.58'between the life we live and the life we feel...there is the invisible border, like a narrow gate' Set in a boarding school in a remote area of the Habsburg Empire at the turn of the last... -
Thought Flights by Professor Robert Musil 9781940625102
Booksplease Price: $19.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940625102Author Professor Robert MusilFormat PaperbackPage Count 348 -
Agathe, or the Forgotten Sister Robert Musil 9781681373836
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681373836Author Robert MusilFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint < -
The Confusions of Young Master Toerless Robert Musil 9781847493545
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.54Musil's limpid, psychological evocation of adolescent sexuality and its often sadistic eroticism which anticipates the carnage of both World Wars. As the nineteenth century draws to an end, young... -
The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic by Robert Musil
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $20.34With an introduction by Jonathan LethemIt is 1913, and Viennese high society is determined to find an appropriate way of celebrating the seventieth jubilee of the accession of Emperor Franz Josef... -
The Confusions of Young Toerless (riverrun editions) Robert Musil 9781529405507
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41The Confusions of Young Torless is a taut, powerful depiction of teenage masculinity in this short novel set in an Austrian military academy. An unpopular boy is gradually bullied and humiliated by... -
Theater Symptoms: Plays and Writings on Drama by Robert Musil 9781940625416
RRP: $32.16Booksplease Price: $29.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940625416Author Robert MusilFormat PaperbackPage Count 622Imprint < -
Washington in Spring: A Nature Journal for a Changing Capital by Professor Robert Musil
RRP: $22.71Booksplease Price: $18.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780935437461Author Robert K MusilFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint -
Primitive Thinking: Figuring Alterity in German Modernity by Nicola Gess 9783111520803
RRP: $30.82Booksplease Price: $22.02This book examines the discourse on 'primitive thinking' in early twentieth century Germany. It explores texts from the social sciences, writings on art and language and - most centrally - literary... -
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Subject Without Nation: Robert Musil and the History of Modern Identity by Stefan Jonsson 9780822325512 [USED COPY]
RRP: $134.00Booksplease Price: $16.20This innovative study of the works of Robert Musil opens a new window on the history of modern identity in western culture. Stefan Jonsson argues that Musil's Austria was the first postimperial state... -
Understanding Joseph Roth by Sidney Rosenfeld 9781643361260
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.98A writer described as a ""Jew in search of a fatherland"" and a ""wanderer in flight toward a tragic end,"" the Austrian writer Joseph Roth (1894-1939) spent his life in pursuit of a national and... -
Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann 9780811228725
Booksplease Price: $20.23In Malina, originally published in German in 1971, Ingeborg Bachmann invites the reader into a world stretched to the very limits of language. An unnamed narrator, a writer in Vienna, is torn between... -
The Emperor's Tomb by Joseph Roth
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.00The Emperor's Tomb is a magically evocative, haunting elegy to the vanished world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and to the passing of time and the loss of youth and friends. Prophetic and... -
Job by Joseph Roth
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.94'Many years ago there lived in Zuchnow, in Russia, a man named Mendel Signer. He was pious, God-fearing and ordinary, an entirely commonplace Jew...' So Roth begins his novel about the loss of... -
Intimate Ties: Two Novellas by Peter Wortsman
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.71First published in 1911, Intimate Ties is Robert Musil's second book, consisting of two novellas, 'The Culmination of Love' and 'The Temptation of Silent Veronica.' Each revolves around a troubled... -
The Legend Of The Holy Drinker by Joseph Roth
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.00'One of the greatest European novelists of the century' Sunday Times Andreas is an alcoholic and a vagrant who lives under a bridge. Downtrodden, submerged at the bottom of society, he lives a... -
Kafka: The Decisive Years by Reiner Stach
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $25.29This is the acclaimed central volume of the definitive biography of Franz Kafka. Reiner Stach spent more than a decade working with over four thousand pages of journals, letters, and literary... -
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80'One of the greatest novels ever written' Philippe Sands Roth's masterpiece: an epic, moving account of the final days of the Austro-Hungarian empire, told through the fortunes of one family. ... -
Virginia Woolf's Essayism by Randi Saloman
RRP: $34.83Booksplease Price: $31.73This book explores the way Woolf used essay-writing techniques to develop her conception of the modern novel. The focus of this study is on Virginia Woolf's vast output of essays and their relation... -
The Great Homecoming by Anna Kim
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.081959, Seoul. Divided from his family by the violent tumult of the Korean civil war, Yunho arrives in South Korea's capital searching for his oldest friend. He finds him in the arms of Eve Moon, a... -
Notebooks, Volume 1, 1998-99 Anselm Kiefer 9780857427045
Booksplease Price: $27.03"For a long time, it was not clear if I would become a writer or an artist," says Anselm Kiefer, whose paintings and sculptures have made him one of the most significant and influential artists of... -
Vineland by Thomas Pynchon
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $9.25Vineland, a zone of blessed anarchy in northern California, is the last refuge of hippiedom, a culture devastated by the sobriety epidemic, Reaganomics, and the Tube. Here, in an Orwellian 1984, Zoyd... -
Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann by Peter Wortsman 9780141198804
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.87'It was a very momentous day, the day on which I was to be slaughtered' Bringing together tales of melancholy and madness, nightmare and fantasy, this is a new collection of the most haunting... -
Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005 by J. M. Coetzee
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Following on from Stranger Shores, which contained J.M. Coetzee's essays from 1986 to 1999, Inner Workings gathers together his literary essays from 2000 to 2005.Of the writers discussed in the first... -
A Small Circus by Hans Fallada
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37A Small Circus is a powerful 1931 portrayal of a German town on the brink of chaos, from bestselling author Hans Fallada (writer of Alone in Berlin)It is summer, 1929, and in a small German town a... -
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth 9780141393421
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.37NEW STATESMAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015 'Sublime ... it inspires a kind of evangelical cult passion among its devotees' Simon Schama'Roth is Austria's Chekhov' William Boyd Strauss's Radetzky March,... -
Experiments Against Reality: The Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Age by Roger Kimball 9781566634304
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.36Confronting the dilemmas of modernist and postmodernist thought, Roger Kimball in this new collection of his work explores the literary and philosophical underpinnings of modernity as well as the... -
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The Tobacconist by Robert Seethaler 9781509806591 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $2.53'Set at a time of lengthening shadows, this is a novel about the sparks that illuminate the dark: of wisdom, compassion, defiance and courage. It is wry, piercing and also, fittingly, radiant.' Daily... -
Soul by Andrey Platonov
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92TRANSLATED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT AND ELIZABETH CHANDLER'For the mind, everthing is in the future' Platonov once wrote; 'for the heart, everything is in the past'. The protagonist of Soul... -
The Robber by Robert Walser
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.94The Robber, Robert Walser's last novel, tells the story of a dreamer on a journey of self-discovery. It is a hybrid of love story, tragedy, and farce, with a protagonist who sweet-talks teaspoons,...