Robert Musil: "Attempts to Find Another Human Being"

Robert Musil: "Attempts to Find Another Human Being" This site is intended as an informal space to share international discourse on the Austrian novelist, essayist, dramatist, scientist, mathematician, and thinker, Robert Musil, on his works, and his growing reception, and...

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Fiction remembers Dorothea Straus

by Mark Mirsky

Last summer, one of the staunchest admirers of Fiction, Dorothea Straus, passed away. Several years before that, sensing how fragile she was in the wake of her distinguished husband, the publisher Roger Straus's death, I went out to their historic...

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Max Frisch at the City College of New York, 1981 (audio)

by Mark Mirsky

I hope in the future to write a number of pages about my friendship with Max Frisch and his wife Marianne (the latter remains the European Editor of Fiction). In previous issues of Fiction during the 1980's (Volumes 7.3, 8.1...

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Open Letter On Our Numbering Switch

by Fiction

Dear Friends of Fiction, As many of you have noticed, we have moved to a new numbering system for our print issue. While we understand and regret the confusion this has caused, please be certain that we did not take...

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Lecture at CCNY, November 1981

by Max Frisch

This will be tiring for you, I know, and sometimes perhaps a little funny, because of my English pronunciation. So we can recuperate now and then, I will use quite a lot of quotes and the quotes you will hear...

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On Handke's A Sorrow Beyond Dreams

by Mark Mirsky

In a complex (though damning) review of Peter Handke's "Crossing the Sierra Los Gredos," in the August 19, 2007 issue of the New York Times Sunday Book Review, one line caught my eye, and raised a vigorous "No, unfair!" The...

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