Five Women (riverrun editions) by Robert Musil - ISBN: 9781529405484
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Five women, ordinary extremities of love and desire, a strange study.

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    288 pages

  • Release Date

    21 February 2022

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Summary

The stories collected under the title Five Women combine two different volumes. All together, these stories, each of which (as the reader will guess) has a woman at the apparent center of its gaze, have the feel of a series study, or of a natural history, though one performed in a strange and not entirely rational laboratory, or field. The intensity in these stories derives in part from looking at humans under the very ordinary extremities of love and desire. Neither love, nor femini…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781529405484
ISBN-10:1529405483
Author:Robert Musil, Eithne Wilkins, Ernst Kaiser, Rivka Galchen
Publisher:Quercus Publishing
Imprint:riverrun
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:288
Release Date:21 February 2022
Weight:200g
Dimensions:196mm x 128mm x 22mm
Series:riverrun editions
About The Author

Robert Musil

Robert Musil (6 November 1880 - 15 April 1942) was an Austrian philosophical writer.

Rivka Galchen, an essayist and fiction writer, is the author of five books. She is a professor at Columbia University and a frequent contributor to The London Review of Books, The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine.

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