Agathe, or the forgotten sister / Robert Musil, translated from the German by Joel Agee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Musil, Robert, 1880-1942, author.

Contributor:

Agee, Joel, translator.

Series:

New York Review Books classics

New york review books classics

Standardized Title:

Mann ohne Eigenschaften. English

Language:

English

German

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xxxiii, 362 pages ; 21 cm.

Other Title:

Agathe

Forgotten sister

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : New York Review of Books, [2020]

Language Note:

Translated from the German.

Summary:

"Agathe is the sister of Ulrich, the so-called "man without qualities" who is the major character in Robert Musil's great, unfinished novel of that name. Ulrich is intellectual and skeptical and rebellious and yet for all that rule-bound, held hostage by his attraction to the systematic, even if every existing system-political, ethical, metaphysical-strikes this onetime mathematician as fundamentally suspect. When, however, after many years Ulrich and his younger sister, Agathe, reunite over the bier of their dead father, a celebrated lawyer, both siblings are electrified. They are, for one thing, almost each other's spitting image, while Agathe, who has just separated from her husband, is even more resistant to any kind of status quo than her brother. Engaging in a series of ever more intense and questioning "holy conversations," brother and sister progressively enlarge the boundaries of sexuality, sensuality, and identity, seeking to arrive at a new conception of reality that they are sure lies within each other to discover. Musil's Agathe, or the Forgotten Sister is one of the most unexpected and breathtaking adventures of twentieth-century fiction, while Joel Agee's new English translation captures all the nuance of Musil's famously acute and penetrating style"-- Provided by publisher.

Other Format:

Online version: Musil, Robert, 1880- Agathe, or the forgotten sister

ISBN:

9781681373836

1681373831

OCLC:

1089268891