Grill's meticulously researched study offers a persuasive and original
interpretation of [Musil's] novel. . . . [T]his book is highly
recommended for a deeper understanding of Musil's brilliant and still
relevant modernist work. JOURNAL OF AUSTRIAN STUDIES
Grill's book is a careful meditation on the poetics of metaphor that she finds organizing Musil's novel. Grill has mined the Nachla to good effect, making available important material and new considerations of the novel. GERMAN QUARTERLY
[A] worthy contribution to international Musil research. Grill obtains
with it the rare status of a researcher who at one and the same time
explains a thesis and carries it out in her own writing. For her
painstaking work in the archive the study earns the particular praise
and interest of those who want to concern themselves more deeply with
the canonical works of modernism such as The Man without Qualities. MUSIL-FORUM
[P]rovides an invaluable structure - the best I've encountered - for
assessing the later sections and unfinished draft material of The Man Without Qualities.
. . . Grill's major achievement is in bringing together the disparate,
unpublished material of Musil's last years into a structure that
clarifies, at least somewhat, Musil's ambitions. . . . For illuminating
the join between the earlier and latter sections of [Musil's novel] in a
way that gives real shape to the whole, Grill's book is tremendous.
DAVID AUERBACH, WAGGISH.ORG
[I]nspired and textually
knowledgeable . . . . [A] spirited and enthusiastic defence of the
creative literary act as a kind of utopian "révolution permanente" . . .
forever avoiding closure . . . . The reader is led through a rich
textual landscape, from quotation to quotation (including material from
the Klagenfurt electronic edition . . .), but the overall impression
thus generated is of a self-referential and secular artistic universe
that is loaded with theological expectations - something that would
surely have made Musil smile. MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW
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