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Robert Musil

Died in 1942

Robert Musil was born in 1880 in Klagenfurt, gave up officer training for engineering studies, built in 1906 a spinning top used to study colour perception, and in 1908 defended a philosophy thesis on Ernst Mach: this twofold culture governs his whole work. A librarian at the Vienna Polytechnic from 1911 to 1914, a soldier on the Italian front, he then served the state in press offices before living by his pen. Exiled in Switzerland in 1938, he died almost penniless in Geneva in 1942.

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