The Man Without Qualities, Volume 2

by Robert Musil

  I am grateful to many people for their assistance with the swarm of questions that arose in the course of my work. I would like to thank Dagmar Leupold for her patience in helping disentangle many impenetrabilities of Musil’s language. I also owe a debt to the cordial and tireless faculty and staff of the Musil Research Institute at the University of Saarbriicken for their help with textual cruxes, as well as to Musil’s German editor, Professor Adolf Frise, for elucidating some places in the German edition that were not clear to me. Not least, I would like to thank my colleagues in the German, psychology, and philosophy departments at the Graduate School of the City University of New York, whom I have often pestered in tracking down a word, terminology, or notion in their disciplines that Musil had appropriated for his purposes.

  BURTON PIKE

  Table of Contents

  PART III INTO THE MILLENNIUM (THE CRIMINALS)

  PART 1

  Sketches for a Continuation of the “Galley Chapters” 1938 and Later

  PART 2

  Museum Pre-Chapter At the lawyers

  Studies for Chapters (1932/33-1941)