Robert Musil and Vineland

[Dave Monroe]

The 1966 film adaptation is available on video.  Note
Barbara Steele (Black Sunday, The Pit and the
Pendulum, Caged Heat) in a supporting role.  More info
at the eminently useful Internet Movie Data Base  ...

http://us.imdb.com/Title?0060574

Now if i could only ever finish The Man Without
Qualities myself (and I've had it for so long, there
wasn't a U.S. ed. available at the time, had to get a
U.K. one).  One of those unfinished masterpieces a la
Gogol's Dead Souls or Flaubert's Bouvard and Pecuchet
...

--- Mark Wright AIA <mwaia at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Howdy
> 
> --- David Simpson <dsimpson at condor.depaul.edu>
> wrote:
> > (snip) Musil was
> > indeed
> > the author of *The Man without Qualities (snip)
> 
> Also, Musil wrote "Young Torless" (missing, of
> course, an umlaut).  It
> is the story of Torless at boarding school.  Torless
> looses his faith,
> discovers torture, and sex sort of, enjoys lots of
> nice shame, etc. The
> usual. 
> 
> Poor persecuted Paul Reubens, the actor/comic who's
> best known
> character is Pee Wee Herman, might well be an
> excellent choice for the
> role of Torless. 
> 
> Now, everybody, was Torless a self-portrait by
> Musil? I've no earthly
> idea.
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> 
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