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Musil, Robert ___ 1880-1942 ___ Austrian ___ civilservant, writer

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
Musil was born in Klagenfurt, Austria, the only son of an engineering professor. He studied at a military academy and then took up at engineering at Vienna University where his father taught. Later in his 20s, though, he went to study philosophy and psychology in Berlin. His first novel, published in 1906 (later translated as 'Confusions of Young Torless'), was a great success. In 1911, Musil married a Jewish woman, and, from that same year until 1914, worked as a librarian in Vienna. During the war he served in the Austrian army. After being hospitalised in 1916, he edited an army newspaper, and, subsequently, worked in the defence ministry until he was made redundant in the 1920s. Thereafter, he became a full-time writer, achieving some success with plays. While trying to write, what became, his masterpiece, 'The Man Without Qualities', he fell into financial difficulties. In 1929, he suffered a mental breakdown. He moved again to Berlin in the early 1930s, and then to Vienna. When the Nazis came he fled to Switzerland with his wife.
One biography link

DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS
1899-1941 ___ literary self philosophy creativity love/sex Germany

WEB TEXT LINKS
extracts and about the diary
three short extracts

ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS
Robert Musil Museum ___ possibly

SOME PUBLISHED TITLES
Diaries 1899-1941

May 2005
THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS
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IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS:
1) The first line of basic information may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown, or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British' a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies. 4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges, and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising. I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries.