BOOKS by Mark Jay Mirsky

Diaries 1899-1941 more books like this

by Robert Musil, Mark Jay Mirsky (Editor), Philip Payne (Translator)

Robert Musil is ranked alongside Marcel Proust and James Joyce for his monumental, unfinished novel, The Man Without Qualities. His Diaries, a distillation of forty-three years of material, are valuable in a number of ways: as a first-hand historical document of life in twentieth-century central Europe, as a kind of unwitting autobiography of a ...

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The Musil Diaries: Robert Musil, 1899-1942 more books like this

by Professor Robert Musil, Ed M Mirsky, Mark Jay Mirsky (Editor)

One of the twentieth centurys great novelists, Robert Musil is often compared to Proust, Joyce, and Kafka. His The Man Without Qualities is uniformly regarded as a supreme achievement in literature. The diaries give us insight into its author, the process by which it was created and the culture that made it necessary. . This selection from the ...

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Dante, Eros, & Kabbalah more books like this

by Mark Jay Mirsky

Did Dante Alighieri, author of "The Divine Comedy" as a young man in Florence sleep with Beatrice Portinari before and after her marriage? Did the poet travel after her death through Hell to find her again? The clues to this academic detective story, writes Mark Jay Mirsky, lie not only in Dante's earlier poetry, "The New Life", or in "The Divine ...

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