Distinguished Outsider - Robert Musil and His Critics

Professor Rogowski shows how successive generations of scholars have appropriated Musil for their own ends, constructing a bewildering and often contradictory array of images of the author according to their own ideological and methodological biases, and how this multitude of different perspectives corresponds with changes in German studies and historical developments over the past four decades. In so doing, he sheds new light on Musil's paradoxical status as, in the words of Frank Kermode, 'the least read of the great twentieth-century novelists'. CHRISTIAN ROGOWSKI is assistant professor of German at Amherst College.

Product details

• Authors: Christian Rogowski
• Publisher: Camden House
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1994
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 15 mm x 22 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 516 g
• Series: Studies in German Literature,
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies