This is Robert Musil's last book, a collection of satirical pieces, short stories and prose reflections published in 1936. It is divided into sections with titles like "Pictures", "Ill-tempered observations" and "Unstorylike stories".

Posthumous Papers of a Living Author

MUSIL, Robert

Literature & Fiction

Marsilio Pub

Hell Screen Cogwheels a Fools Life

Akutagawa, Ryūnosuke

Short Stories & Anthologies

Relates the childhood adventures of Nivasio Dolcemare, a boy growing up in Athens at the turn of the century, a time when the aristocracy was clinging to a vanishing lifestyle

The Childhood of Nivasio Dolcemare (Eridano's Library, 3)

Savinio, Alberto

Biographies & Memoirs

The Plague Sower (Eridanos Press Library) (English and Italian Edition)

Bufalino, Gesualdo

Contemporary

The narrator describes his experiences quarentined with a group of patients awaiting death at an old sanitarium near Palermo in 1946

The Plague Sower (Eridanos Press Library)

The hypocrisy of an Italian academic community is exposed when a university professor becomes obsessed with finding the author of an anonymous letter sent to a magazine and sharply criticizing him at the height of his career

The Invisible Player (Eridanos Library, Vol 10)

Giuseppe Pontiggia

Stories use horror and fantasy to depict the alienation of modern life

Cold Tales (Eridanos Press Library)

Piñera, Virgílio

Two short novels deal with the experiences of a military officer at the close of World War I, and with the guilt of an industrialist who inadvertently causes Count Luna to be sent to a concentration camp in war-torn Europe

Baron Bagge Count Luna (Eridanos Press Library)

Lernet-Holenia, Alexander

World Literature

This book includes two short novels by Alexander Lernet-Holenia. The thin line between life and death, between reality and fantasy, is skillfully explored in these two short novels.As a writer, Alexander Lemet-Holenia combines the best of the classic tradition in literature with a surprisingly contemporary understanding of structure and language. Passages in Count Luna tracing lineage and metaphorical relationships are brilliant.

After waking from apparent death on the floor of the family crypt, Georg Maltravers resolves to live a second life under an assumed name

The Resurrection of Maltravers (Eridanos Press Library)

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Posthumous Papers of a Living Author

Hell Screen Cogwheels a Fools Life

The Childhood of Nivasio Dolcemare (Eridano's Library, 3)

The Plague Sower (Eridanos Press Library) (English and Italian Edition)

The Plague Sower (Eridanos Press Library)

The Invisible Player (Eridanos Library, Vol 10)

Cold Tales (Eridanos Press Library)

Baron Bagge Count Luna (Eridanos Press Library)

Baron Bagge Count Luna (Eridanos Press Library)

The Resurrection of Maltravers (Eridanos Press Library)