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Apr 23, 2024
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ENGL055A PO - Impossible Novels: The Man Without QualitiesWhen Offered: Last offered spring 2016.
Instructor(s): J. Lethem
Credit: 1.0
In the poet Randall Jarrell’s definition, “a novel is a prose narrative of a certain length with something wrong with it”. The Austrian Modernist Robert Musil’s THE MAN WITHOUT QUALITIES, an unfinished novel of 1700 pages in its most comprehensive edition, is an exemplary case of the above. Musil is often classed with Proust and Joyce in the 20th Century pantheon; he’s also rarely read. In this seminar we’ll tackle this vast book directly and by using a number of historical and critical sources, as well as Musil’s diaries, to surround and inform it with useful context. The result will be a reading expedition to an unknown shore. Letter grade only.
This course has been revised for spring 2018 .
Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
Area 1
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