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Genese Grill

Genese Grill is currently working on the first English-language biography of Robert Musil for Yale University Press. Her exploration of spirit and matter, Portals, appeared with Splice in 2023 (three essays of which first appeared in The Georgia Review). She has published four translations of Robert Musil with Contra Mundum Press and a scholarly study, The World as Metaphor in Robert Musil’s The Man without Qualities (Camden House, 2012).

Reviews

Nine Lives of Robert Musil (on Leben-Werk-Wirkung, edited by Karl Dinklage; Karl Corino’s Musil: Leben und Werk in Bildern und Texten; Karl Corino’s Robert Musil: Eine Biographie; Marie Louise von Roth’s Un destin de femme: Martha Musil: l’amante, l’espouse, la soeur; Klaus Amann’s Robert Musil: Literatur und Politik; Erinnerung an Robert Musil: Texte von Augenzeugen, edited by Karl Corino; Oliver Pfohlmann’s Robert Musil; Nanao Hayasaka’s Robert Musil und der Genius Loci: Die Lebensumstände des “Mannes ohne Eigenschaften”; and Karl Corino’s “Von der Seele Träumen Dürfen”: Nachträge zur Biographie und zum Werk Robert Musils)

               “I’m not famous now. But just wait until I’m dead!”                            […]

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