VLVL2 (15): The Robert Musil Story

[dedalus204 at comcast.net]

370.32:  "About the time the show ended, Prairie came by, Zoyd and Flash went off looking for beer, and she and Justin settled down, semi-brother and sister, in front of the Eight O'Clock Movie, Pee-wee Herman in _The Robert Musil Story_.  It was mostly Pee-wee talking in a foreign accent, or sitting around in front of some pieces of paper with some weird-looking marker pen, and the kids' attention kept wandering to each other."


"Austrian novelist, best known for his monumental unfinished novel DER MANN OHNE EIGENSCHAFTEN (The Man Without Qualities) in three volumes. The first book was published in 1930, part of the second book in 1933, and remaining texts posthumously in 1943. Musil also wrote plays, essays, and short stories. His works, which often deal with the protagonist's self-sustaining intellectual and emotional life, have been compared to those of Marcel Proust. " [...]

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rmusil.htm

http://www.xs4all.nl/~jikje/New/index.html


and:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000607/


I am unfamiliar with the Musil work, although I know it's been compared to Mann's _The Magic Mountain_.  Would Otto (or anyone else) care to enlighten us on _The Man Without Qualities_, as well as its relation to the Pee-wee gag?