Robert Musils Thought Flights vividly evokes the secrets, challenges, and mundanities of interwar life in cosmopolitan Vienna and Berlin. The texts presented here have been selected by translator Genese Grill from Musils Nachlass and collected for the first time under the title Thought Flights. They include material originally published in journals, newspapers, and magazines but not included in Musils Posthumous Papers of a Living Author as well as literary fragments and heretofore unpublished texts. Despite the temporal, geographical, and cultural distance between Musils world and ours, our own time and troubles are all too recognizable in Musils portrayals of the "age of money," of simulation, and of standardization. Thought Flights is a lament of contemporary complacency, optimism, and homogenization as well as a celebration of living words and original thought by one of the great Modernists of the 20th century. As an astonishing master of metaphor and selfdescribed "Monsieur le Vivisecteur," Musil explores the psyches and lives of himself and his contemporaries with illuminating insight. The lucid, striking prose of his stories and vignettes, and the wise and witty commentary of his glosses, show Musils response to innovations in technology, art, and politics, and his efforts to enact a strategy for both illuminating and ameliorating the crisis of language that haunted his contemporaries. Moving effortlessly from discussion of fashion to Kants categorical...

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