On our latest Underappreciated segment, Burton Pike, editor and translator of Robert Musil’s titanic though unfinished novel, The Man Without Qualities, discusses the philosophical and aesthetic ideas circulating in pre-war Viennese society as depicted in the novel.
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Comments [3]
When Burton Pike says that the novel is "still not finished" he seems to suggest that it is still writing itself, into infinity. Marvelous image!
Ulrich gives playful names to some characters. Yes, there is a distant echo of Socrates' Diotima, having to do with her hazy nimbus of love.
Diotima was the teacher of Socrates.
Is that of any significance to the charcater of Diotima in "The Man Without Qualities"?
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