Intimate Ties

Two Novellas

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  • A
  • master
  • of
  • high
  • modernist
  • literature
  • explores
  • female
  • sexuality
  • and
  • desire
  • through
  • the
  • eyes
  • of
  • two
  • women—one,
  • married
  • and
  • unfaithful;
  • the
  • other,
  • caught
  • in
  • a
  • love
  • triangle—in
  • these
  • two
  • erotic
  • novellasFirst
  • published
  • in
  • 1911,
  • Intimate
  • Ties
  • is
  • Robert
  • Musil’s
  • second
  • book,
  • consisting
  • of
  • two
  • novellas,
  • “The
  • Culmination
  • of
  • Love”
  • and
  • “The
  • Temptation
  • of
  • Silent
  • Veronica”.
  • Each
  • revolves
  • around
  • a
  • troubled
  • woman
  • in
  • the
  • throes
  • of
  • her
  • sexual
  • and
  • romantic
  • woes,
  • as
  • their
  • memories
  • of
  • the
  • past
  • return
  • to
  • influence
  • their
  • present
  • desires.
  • Musil
  • tracks
  • the
  • psyche
  • of
  • his
  • protagonists
  • in
  • a
  • blurring
  • of
  • impressions
  • that
  • is
  • reflected
  • in
  • his
  • experimental
  • prose.Intimate
  • Ties
  • offers
  • the
  • reader
  • an
  • early
  • glimpse
  • of
  • the
  • high
  • modernist
  • style
  • Musil
  • would
  • perfect
  • in
  • his
  • magnum
  • opus
  • The
  • Man
  • Without Qualities.
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