O gluposti
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- Author: Musil Robert
- Publisher: Sandorf
- Availability: Available
- Condition: Excellent
- Code: 76306
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O gluposti
Musil Robert
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Robert Musil: About stupidity
The words that Musil uttered at a lecture that he gave on several occasions and in various places in Vienna in 1937, just before the Nazi occupation of Austria, have the rare quality that they cannot burn. They throw them on the pyre, and they continue to speak. Ordinary words connected in simple sentences with a minimum of stylistic figures, comparable only to Socrates, spoken in the Athenian court, or to those from Zolina's famous speech "I accuse". While he was saying them, a huge bonfire was burning for Musil on Berlin's Bebelplatz, where Hitler's regime had already burned all his books, along with the works of other unworthy authors. That's why the writer invented these "words that don't burn" and arranged them in a - structurally fragile - yet fireproof metonymy, called the lecture "On Stupidity". Musil's main occupation is opinion; his literary tools are introspective analysis, sudden conversion, philosophical parable and very sharp irony, which reduces a person to the "quintessence of dust", to a grain, but that "grain", nevertheless, is a "masterpiece" that in happy moments is able to illuminate the whole world with its incomparable humor.
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- Author: Musil Robert
- Publisher: Sandorf
- Year of publication:2024
- Place of publication:Zagreb
- Pages:75
- Dimensions:12x17 cm
- Script:Latin script
- Condition:Excellent
- Binding:Softcover
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