the man w/out qualities

Joe Varo vjvaro at erie.net
Wed Jul 17 13:22:45 CDT 1996



On Wed, 17 Jul 1996, Reiner Haehnle wrote, regarding Musil's _Man Without 
Qualities_:

> BTW, at the end of the second volume of the German edition a bunch of
> early stages of chapters, variants and incomplete chapters are
> collected. It gives a fascinating view of Musil's workshop. Some
> chapters he reworked dozens of times. I hope they bothered to include
> some of this stuff in the American edition.

I have a copy of the English trans. on my bookshelf in the 
waiting-to-be-read pile and can confirm that most of the second volume 
are re-workings & rough drafts.

Joe





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