{"product_id":"musil-diaries","title":"Musil Diaries","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy Robert Musil\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by Mark Mirsky\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRobert Musil is ranked alongside Marcel Proust and James Joyce for his monumental, unfinished novel,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Man Without Qualities\u003c\/em\u003e. His\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003ediaries\u003cem\u003e, \u003c\/em\u003ea distillation of forty-three years of material, are valuable in a number of ways: as a first-hand historical document of life in twentieth-century central Europe, as a kind of unwitting autobiography of a great novelist, and as a writer's notebook that details the moods of artistic adventure. Readers will gain keen insights into Musil's passage from scientist, to soldier, to novelist, in honest passages that reveal the man in all his humor, ambition, frustration, and transcendence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback\u003cbr\u003e624 pages\u003cbr\u003eBasic Books, 1999\u003cbr\u003e7.5 x 1.4 x 9.2 inches\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9780465016518\u003cbr\u003eDiaries, Memoirs\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":7844435951646,"sku":"9780465016518","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/products\/Diaries-Robert-Musil-1899-1941_Philip-Payne.jpg?v=1593190233","url":"https:\/\/neue-galerie-design-shop.myshopify.com\/products\/musil-diaries","provider":"Neue Galerie Design Shop \u0026 Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}