{"product_id":"thought-flights","title":"Thought Flights","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Robert Musil \u003cbr\u003eTraslated by Genese Grill \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.neuegalerie.org\/shop\/collections\/bookstore-literature-robert-musil\"\u003eRobert Musil's\u003c\/a\u003e \u003cem\u003eThought Flights\u003c\/em\u003e 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 Musil's Nachlass and collected for the first time under the title \u003cem\u003eThought Flights\u003c\/em\u003e. They include material originally published in journals, newspapers, and magazines - but not included in Musil's \u003cem\u003ePosthumous Papers of a Living Author\u003c\/em\u003e - as well as literary fragments and heretofore unpublished texts. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDespite the temporal, geographical, and cultural distance between Musil's world and ours, our own time and troubles are all too recognizable in Musil's portrayals of the \"age of money,\" of simulation, and of standardization.\u003cem\u003e Thought Flights\u003c\/em\u003e 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 self-described \"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 Musil's 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoving effortlessly from discussion of fashion to Kant's categorical imperative, le vivisecteur writes with humor, lyricism, and fervor in an open genre availing itself of poetic prose, philosophical essay, fictional narrative, and feuilletonistic lightness. Through unlikely combinations and metaphoric syntheses, Musil brings \"beauty and excitement\" into the world, and when things that are usually separate unite, thoughts \"fly.\" With this publication, the now growing English-language corpus of the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Confusions of Young Törless\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cem\u003e Five Women\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.neuegalerie.org\/shop\/products\/the-man-without-qualities-vol-1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Man without Qualities\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e is expanded further. Other volumes of Musil's writings will be forthcoming from Contra Mundum Press over the next decade.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback\u003cbr\u003e348 pages\u003cbr\u003eContra Mundum Press, 2015\u003cbr\u003e5 x 0.7 x 8 inches\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9781940625102\u003cbr\u003eHistory, Essays, Literary Criticism \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35329344635048,"sku":"9781940625102","price":16.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/products\/Musil_Thought_Flights.jpg?v=1634936122","url":"https:\/\/neue-galerie-design-shop.myshopify.com\/products\/thought-flights","provider":"Neue Galerie Design Shop \u0026 Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}