Robert Musil: "Attempts to Find Another Human Being": Book Launch and Reading: Save the Date

Sunday, June 2, 2019

Book Launch and Reading: Save the Date

A reading and book launch, hosted by Contra Mundum Press, of my new translation of Robert Musil's Unions: Two Stories, on Sunday evening, June 23rd at 7 p.m. at Unnameable Books, 600 Vanderbilt Avenue (at St. Marks) in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, hopefully in their garden.

And please spread the word to any other people who might be interested!

More details to follow.

And here is information about the book:

http://contramundum.net/2019/03/17/unions/

No comments:

Post a Comment

Attempts to Find Another Human Being

Around 1923 Musil planned to publish a collection of his essays under the title, "Versuche einen anderen Menschen zu finden" (Attempts to Find Another Human Being). In his notebooks he wrote:

"In fact, this could be the title for everything that I have ever written. I can think of no other excuse for spending one's whole life at a writing desk to become a beggar. [...] I can only imagine another duty with great difficulty. I have always been a writer, always pursued writing.
It has come to pass in my life that people have scolded me for it and have called me a sick human being, an intellectual, an unmoral human being, a scientist, in short, everything that I am not, and only with resistance, under the pressure of a few, people have become accustomed to thinking of me as what I believe myself to be, and want to be: a writer."