Full reading and meeting schedule for our year-long exploration of Musil's The Man Without Qualities.
Genese Grill
@genesegrill.bsky.social
Essayist, Translator, Bibliophile, Working on the First English-Language Biography of Robert Musil for Yale University Press. https://genesegrill.wixsite.com/website https://www.thisissplice.co.uk/essays/portals/
What is this book, The Man Without Qualities, by Robert Musil? And why might you want to spend a year reading it with me and @samantharhill.bsky.social ? open.substack.com/pub/genesegr...
The Man Without Qualities
apropos of upcoming reading group with Samantha Rose Hill
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I am co-leading a year-long Man Without Qualities Reading Group with @samantharhill.bsky.social , starting on Monday, October 13th. Join us! Details can be found here: genesegrill.substack.com/p/man-withou...
Man Without Qualities Reading Group
Starting October 13th
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Aristotle and Plato are One! Aesthetics and Ethics are One! open.substack.com/pub/genesegr...
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"What M[usil] is always about, why he haunts: looking for a place the individual can fit in in a deadened, shallow world. .. cf. Rilke, the goal of art is to produce in reader a moral imperative to change his life." genesegrill.substack.com/p/excerpts-f...
Excerpts from Burton Pike's Musil Notes
"...looking for a place the individual can fit in in a deadened, shallow world."
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Yes, such a beautiful, rich, wide-ranging and important essay. Thank you, Gabe.
Gabe Gottlieb@gabegottlieb.bsky.social · 2y agoI am excited to share this stunning essay by Kelly Swope just published at Marginalia Review of Books on the poetry of Hannah Arendt (translated by @samantharhill.bsky.social and @genesegrill.bsky.social). I hope you enjoy his writing as much as I do! www.marginaliareviewofbooks.com/post/thinkin...
Sharing a draft I'm struggling to weave in to the biography narrative on Musil's take on the "new human being" and attempts to create a new world after WWI: activism, anarchism, aesthetic edcucation, ethics, socialism, totalitarianisms. open.substack.com/pub/genesegr...
The New Human Being?
Activists, Anarchists, Nihilists, Aesthetes: Musil and post WWI dreams of a New World
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I had the pleasure of interviewing David Lazar about his new book for On the Seawall: www.ronslate.com/the-natural-...
“The natural warmth of detritus”: David Lazar in Conversation on Stories of the Streets – On the Seawall
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A podcast of me reading Musil's "Susanna's Letter" from Thought Flights. More to come. open.substack.com/pub/genesegr...
"Susanna's Letter"
Small Prose from Thought Flights
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This beautiful book arrived today, thank you very much for this gift of poetry by the incomparable Hannah Arendt... @samantharhill.bsky.social @genesegrill.bsky.social www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/164... www.patheos.com/blogs/ecopre...
For the Love of the Word
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
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Still working on my summary of the Musil-Mann relationship. In the meantime, a little very rough draft excerpt from the bio-in-progress on Mach, Kant, Bahr (and the marvelous Marie Bashkirtseff!). open.substack.com/pub/genesegr...
Kant, Mach, Bahr and the "Unsalvagable I"
A very rough draft excerpt from the biography
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Musil Contra Mann: Just a taster for my longer analysis of the complex relationship between these two men (coming soon): open.substack.com/pub/genesegr...
Musil contra Mann
A particularly nasty dig from Musil's notebooks
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“Through thoughtlessness, we render the world sterile and lifeless, but when we write thoughtfully and beautifully … we make the world thoughtful and beautiful.” Review of @samantharhill.bsky.social & @genesegrill.bsky.social’s book of/on Arendt’s poetry www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/164...
For the Love of the Word
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
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Musil's Love for Euripides: open.substack.com/pub/genesegr...
Musil's Love for Euripides
Since I just finished reading Euripides’ Bacchae in Greek, with help from Abby and Emer and The Catherin Project, it seemed an appropriate moment to share Musil’s thoughts on this great Greek writer.
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If you are interested in what happened to the Musil's apartment in Vienna when they fled into exile in Switzerland (and the tragic story of what happened to Martha's sister, Johanna Casper), here you go: open.substack.com/pub/genesegr...
Swiss Exile and the Rasumofskgasse Apartment
Robert and Martha left Austria about five months after the Anschluss with the German Reich, carrying with them only the necessary manuscripts to continue writing the unfinished Man Without Qualities, ...
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