From: bradmcc@cloud9.net http://www.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/
Date: Thu Dec 16 21:27:02 1999

Your favourite book: Edmund Husserl, "Crisis of European Sciences and transcendental phenomenology"

Your comments:

I knew Hermann Broch's son fairly well. I am currently reading the English translation of Musil's Diaries. I wish I had asked Broch's son about his father's relation with Musil, before the son died (ca. 1995). Best wishes! Into the Millennium (the criminals)!

From: S_Katherine@yahoo.com
Date: Tue Dec 14 18:42:50 1999

Your favourite book: Just told you, but another one: The Magic Mountain

Your comments:

So I've read through your guestbook... of course, only the english... :> It makes me very happy to see that your site is receiving deserved traffic from the right sources. Keep up the wonderful work! :>
ciao,
Katherine

From: s_katherine@yahoo.com
Date: Tue Dec 14 18:31:45 1999

Your favourite book: Man Without Qualities

Your comments:

Thank you so much for creating this site! Its absolutely delicious! (if thats the word to use!) You have filled a gap in the web that would have been inexcusable... thanks!

From: nienkevanbeers@netscape.net http://
Date: Fri Nov 12 21:19:57 1999

Your favourite book:

Your comments:

hallo MAKER, (jerry van beers) is dat even toevallig! van beers/musil-combinatie, hoe plaatst men dit in de kansberekening-theorie?
Mijn afstudeerscriptie Kunstgeschiedenis ging over Musil en dan m.n. zijn ideeën over beeldende kunst. Dat was drie jaar geleden en het heeft me niet meer losgelaten sindsdien. Wie weet heb ik me Musils "levenslessen" ongemerkt aangetrokken..
Mijn plan is (zoals alle afgestudeerden) nog eens een artikel te schrijven over mijn scriptieonderwerp in relatie met hedendaagse kunst-theorieën. Is er ook een Nieuwsgroep met dit onderwerp, of discussie omtrent het onderwerp van deze site? De site ziet er goed uit maar is m.i. gebaat bij een dergelijke uitbreiding.
groeten, nienke van beers.

From: smkmg@rasmus.uib.no http://
Date: Mon Jun 28 23:47:26 1999

Your favourite book: Mannen uten egenskaper

Your comments:

From: jaap_elgersma@yahoo.com http://
Date: Fri Jun 25 12:41:01 1999

Your favourite book: Pirandello: iemand, niemand, honderdduizend

Your comments:

apropos: ook de groeten van Eefje (die geen E-mailadres heeft; een van haar favoriete boeken is: Italo Svevo, Bekentenissen van Zeno.

From: mitest@freemail.org.mk http://
Date: Sun Jun 6 14:21:54 1999

Your favourite book: all

Your comments:

From: wkent@mediaone.net http://www.jacksonville.net/~wkent
Date: Sat Mar 20 02:43:26 1999

Your favourite book:

Your comments:

I had carried Die Virwirrungen des Zoeglings Toerless around with me since about 1973 and never read it. I couldn't sleep last night, got up, picked up Toerless and read it through until 6:00 a.m. That it was written in 1906 amazes me. It reminded me of myself, as a student in a boarding school military academy years ago. Thank you for creating this site.
William Kent Jacksonville, Florida wkent@mediaone.net http://www.jacksonville.net/~wkent

From: mjo http://
Date: Fri Mar 12 13:07:07 1999

Your favourite book: The Man Without Qualities (part one?) and M. Kundera: "The unbearable lightness of being"

Your comments:

Excellent page! Both according to the design and of course the contents... :-D Please, more excerpts from his diary (in english:)!

From: s_manzo@yahoo.com http://
Date: Wed Feb 24 17:30:30 1999

Your favourite book:

Your comments:

I'm just starting to learn all about Musil, and this site proved very useful. I'm a grad student who will be focusing on Musil this semester, so any further information is always appreciated!

From: pelagus11@hotmail.com http://
Date: Sat Dec 26 12:37:26 1998

Your favourite book: Nora (H. Ibsen)

Your comments:

HI JERRY ! Thanks for making this side. It's very rich on information about Musil, exactly what I need to make a nice presentation about his biography for the German lesson. I wish you a happy new year! Deborah (CH - 26.Dez.1998)

From: rainbolt@earthlink.net http://
Date: Wed Dec 9 04:24:35 1998

Your favourite book: "The Man Without Qualities"

Your comments:

I sign this with trepidation. We would all like to be men without qualities. History both affirms our desire and, having given us the leave, denies it. Russell

From: post_naili@yahoo.com http://
Date: Tue Dec 8 05:15:35 1998

Your favourite book: Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törless&Moon palace

Your comments:

Ich finde dieses homepage entzückend. Mein Einziger Einwand wäre vielleicht, daß die Musil-Photos zu klein sind, um als wallpaper zu taugen. Ich interessiere mich ganz besonders für die Beziehung zwischen Robert Musil und Paul Auster, die in sehr unterschiedlichen Stilen schreiben aber die mir auf eine sehr geheimnisvolle, ja dunkle Weise verwandt erscheinen. Ich würde mich sehr gerne über die Beziehung dieser beiden Autoren austauschen.

From: slothkri@zedat.fu-berlin.de http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~slothkri
Date: Thu Nov 26 16:01:08 1998

Your favourite book: Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow (Die Ende der Parabel)

Your comments:

Many thanks for your really great site. It was very enjoyable and interesting to read because of its visual design and its excellent content.
I always thought that there had to be place for Musil and his "Mann ohne Eigenschaften" on the internet but couldn't find one. I think his reflections on modernity and modern identity, his mixture of technical and philosophical reasoning do fit well into a medium like the internet.
And I think your site really did it the right way...

From: harry@nicron.demon.co.uk http://
Date: Sun Nov 8 11:39:08 1998

Your favourite book: Currently: Bruce Chatwin "Songlines"

Your comments:

Excellent website. Got the link from http://www.worldweb.net/~jharris/osip3.html. Can you tell me anything about Robert Musil's brother?

From: lizzart@gurlmail.com http://
Date: Wed Nov 4 15:02:47 1998

Your favourite book: anthem

Your comments:

this is a really great site. i am doing a research report on the hollocaust and i stumbled upon it.

From:luc.segers@advalvas.be
Date: Sun Oct 25 10:24:03 1998

Uw commentaar:

Jerry,
Ben na jouw bezoek aan mijn site onmiddellijk eens komen kijken naar jouw prestaties. ZEER origineel, mooi, echt prettig om naar te kijken en vooral om te raadplegen. Vooral de vondst met het fotoalbum (horizontaal scrollend) is grandioos. Dit is een van de beste sites die ik ooit heb gezien, ik zal ze dus bookmarken. Je valt bij wijze van spreken van de ene verrassing in de andere en daarvan hou ik nu net! Van ganser harte gefeliciteerd; zet dit mooie werk voort!
Vriendelijke groeten,
Luc

From: hpj.willemse@student.unimaas.nl
Date: Wed Sep 30 14:19:02 1998

Uw favoriete boek: kuifje in het land van de sovjets

Uw commentaar:

omdat ik die heel graag zou bezitten.

From: jds@hotmail.com
Date: Sun Sep 13 13:35:47 1998

Your favourite book: Underworld by Don DeLilo

Your comments:

A very informative site. Underworld is as much about America as MWQ is about Europe. Highly recommended.

From: watt@igate1.hac.com
Date: Wed Aug 26 23:09:00 1998

Your favourite book: Hardy's Return of the Native

Your comments:

From: moskva@dds.nl http://www.xs4all.nl/~taco/
Date: Mon Jul 6 23:27:09 1998

Uw favoriete boek: Karakter van Mr. Bordewijk

Uw commentaar:

Goed, je hebt me zo ver: ik ga een boek van Musil lezen. Heeft al dat gezwam over DHTML en JavaScript van ons toch nog cultureel positieve effecten. Nu we het toch over JavaScript e.d. hebben: Je nieuwe index voor Netschapen is echt kicken.
Blijf taggen en lezen,
Taco

Date: Wed Jul 1 13:54:58 1998

Uw commentaar:

Goed zo jerry. De site wordt steeds beter! mvg Hans Venniker

From: bbvcgracia@bbvnet
Date: Sun Jun 7 01:04:27 1998

Your comments:

Now a web about Maeterlink, OK?

From: dmusil@hotmail.com
Date: Wed Jun 3 01:47:36 1998

Your comments:

Hi, I'm David Musil 21 yrs old from Ontario Canada...I wonder if I am related to Robert? "Musil" is not a very common name in Canada...My Dad and Grandparents are from Austria...I still have family there...They came to Canada in the early 50's...
Neat Site
David Musil

From: hans@sputter.demon.nl
Date: Sun May 31 23:16:23 1998

Uw commentaar:

Gave site Jerry. Hij wordt steeds beter. Je boekenschrift is een leuk idee. (hoeveel bladzijdes heb je nu al gelezen?)

From: jesperbalslev@hotmail.com
Date: Thu May 7 11:37:53 1998

Your comments:

Great homepage. I'm writing my thesis on MWQ right now. But can't you make a more elaborated list of secondary literature ? Greetings !

From: schma020@mail.uni-mainz.de
Date: Wed May 6 21:42:41 1998

Your comments:

Thank you so much for your site. I just read Törleß and it overpowered me so much that I started Drei Frauen right away. In Törleß I could look into the character's soul so deeply I found it almost disturbing. I do not see myself ready for Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften yet, though. Thank you again!

From: schorns@mail.uni-freiburg.de
Date: Tue Apr 21 18:49:19 1998

Your comments:

Ich bin sehr beeindruckt, Robert Musil-Forschern im Internet zu begegnen. Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften ist ein grossartiges Buch, man kann es wahrscheinlich sein ganzes Leben lang lesen. Wenn jemand Lust hat, sich mit mir ueber Musil auszutauschen bitte an meine Adresse schreiben. Ich habe mich mit Frauendarstellungen im MoE beschaeftigt. Und Beziehungen zu Edgar Reiz Film: Die zweite Heimat, der Musil sehr oft zitiert. Stephanie Schorn

From: vidal@netwaybbs.com.br
Date: Tue Apr 21 16:16:48 1998

Your comments:

The site is much better with some of Musil's reflections in his diary. Continue, please, to translate more parts.
José Vidal

From: mail@pwilders.demon.nl in opmaak
Date: Sat Mar 28 23:35:09 1998

Uw commentaar:

prachtig gecomponeerde page ! Bovendien kan ik het in hoge mate waarderen, dat iemand eens de moeite neemt om een site aan kunst, in dit geval een schrijver op te dragen. Zelf ben ik een Proust-fanaat, en daarnaast een fervent liefhebber van de poezie van Eijkelboom, Bloem, Kavafis en Emily Dickinson. In mijn page-in-opmaak wordt daar dan ook ruim aandacht aan besteed... Hoe dan ook; mijn complimenten !

From: joaojorge@fisica.ist.utlp.pt http://alfa.ist.utl.pt/~l35290 [ci.ist.utl.pt]
Date: Sat Mar 7 20:41:34 1998

Your comments:

Most interesting. I am now reading The Man without Qualities and I found striking the resemblance between Musil and Ulrich. Thank you very much.

From: psycho@space.ch http://www.space.ch/lmb
Date: Mon Feb 9 19:34:06 1998

Your comments:

Nice and interesting page on Robert Musil. It helped me a lot since I had to write an essay about one of his works ("Wer Hat Dich, Du Schöner Wald..?"). Keep up the good work!

From: jrfromm@dreamscape.com
Date: Mon Feb 9 13:32:09 1998

Your comments:

My awareness of Musil is new and is the consequence of a friend's enjoyment of The Man Without Qualities. I've only read Postumous Papers but have thoroughly enjoyed what I have read. Also ran across Moosbrugger in a collection of examples of "the existential" in literature. Looking forward to reading TMWQ.

From: kdawson7th@aol.com
Date: Sun Feb 1 00:28:37 1998

Your comments:

Man w/o qualities good to see attention to this remarkable book. currently at the beginning of plans for celeb, and already rcognizing this book may be the best read I've stumbled across in a long time. since magic mountain? the idiot? whewww!!!
a philosopy prof has suggested that wittgenstein waas quite taken with musil.
thankyou -karen

From: y-drach@internet-zahav.net
Date: Wed Jan 28 22:43:48 1998

Your comments:

Thank you for your thorough work. i'm currently writing a ph.d dissertation about musil,and would be happy to see your web pages grow. if anyone out there is interested in discussing about musil and his work,e-mail me:
shelly drach y-drach@internet-zahav.net

From: fiction@pipeline.com
Date: Wed Jan 21 16:23:24 1998

Your comments:

Dear Sir,
I am the American editor of the Musil Diaries to be published next year by Basic Books here in New York City. I read your Web pages on Musil with pleasure and will recommend them to all my students at the City College of New York. We published in the magazine Fiction (of which I am the Editor-in-chief) selections from the Diaries in English through three issues, Volume 12, Numbers 2&3, Number 13, 1&2, and Volume 14, No. 1.
If you would like me to, I will send you a number of corrections for your English translations of the pages you are publishing. Two that I noted are, "faze" where you should have "phase" and the remark that Musil's sister (who died in childhood) arranged for his Diaries to be published. It must have been his wife, Martha.
Congratulations and please keep up the good work!
Mark Jay Mirsky
Editor: Fiction Director: Jewish Studies, The City College of New York

From: taco@xs4all.nl http://www.xs4all.nl/~taco/
Date: Sun Jan 11 16:52:21 1998

Uw commentaar:

Gaaf gedaan.

Date: Wed Jan 7 17:51:27 1998

Uw commentaar:

hallo Jerry,
ik ben nu met mijn 4.04 op je site geweest. Ik heb in ieder geval geen last meer van java script errors. Ik ben nu bezig om het gebruik van je site te bestuderen. Wie weet kom ik er nog wel eens uit. In ieder geval wensen we ( Irene en ik) jullie al het goede voor 1998. mvg H. Venniker en I.Pouwels

From: Roberto Vidal: rvidal@secrel.com.br
Date: Sun Jan 4 15:07:58 1998

Your comments:

This site is welcome. But it does'nt contains parts of Musil's diaries and works. I hope this will be done

From: h.kolder@wxs.nl
Date: Sun Jan 4 19:28:25 1998

Uw commentaar:

Beste Jerry, bedankt voor het fixen van mijn computer! Veel succes met de hits opje homepage! groeten van Henry Kolder

From: roama@tin.it
Date: Fri Jan 2 12:36:44 1998

Your comments:

Francesco Saverio Musino - Naples -ITALY

From: wilson@fuse.net
Date: Sat Dec 27 03:54:35 1997

Your comments:

Thank you for the helpful site. DRW

From: SiccoB@hotmail.com
Date: Wed Dec 17 19:33:45 1997

Uw commentaar:

Ik weet nog goed dat mijn docent literatuur het altijd had over Robert Musil en zijn boek: "de man zonder eigenschappen". Erik Blauw, zo heette de goede man, was iemand precies bij deze titel paste. Natuurlijk was zoals het een goed docent Nederlands betaamd, zeer a-technisch en zag hij er heel slordig en ongewassen uit, en deze mogen tot je slechte eigenschappen gerekend worden. Maar verder was de man zo weinig expressief en zo'n boekenwurm, dat hij volegsn mij vergat te leven. Ik weet niet hoe de echte man zonder eigenschappen was, maar Erik Blauw heeft er vast erg veel herkenning in gezien.

From: j.rijnberg@mail.uva.nl
Date: Mon Dec 8 21:43:59 1997

Uw commentaar:

een prima site, jerry! en steeds vollediger. we zijn reuze trots op je. groeten van je vrienden: joris, joris en renzo.

Uw commentaar:

Jikje,
je verdient een geweldig kompliment voor je Musil-website. De inhoud is interessant en de uitvoering is prachtig.

"Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften" heb ik veertig jaar geleden gelezen. Na het bekijken van je site komt spontaan de gedachte op: "ik ga dat boek nog een keer lezen". Je inspanning werkt dus stimulerend op anderen.

From: hslowe@westvaco.com
Date: Tue Dec 2 21:39:47 1997

Your comments:

Thank you so much for constructing a site for Musil. May it introduce more readers to his beautiful prose.
Heather Lowe

From: brian artese
Date: Mon Oct 27 01:56:28 1997

Hello --

Your comments:

I've been waiting a long time for a Musil site... Nice work! If you're taking votes... I think it would be appropriate to attach a prose piece from the "Posthumous Papers of a Living Author," e.g., something like what's translated as "Black Magic" (my favorite). If you'd like, I'll transcribe the English version. That piece alone articulates just about everything encompassed by what we now call "performance theory."

From: lawrenc9@gte.net
Date: Sat Oct 11 23:52:05 1997

Your comments:

I wanted to say that your site is most welcome, well done and a bright, if lonely, resource. I've long admired Musil, since coming across Torless many years ago. Sadly, he is seldom read in the States - though we do have the full translation of Der Mann Ohne Eigenschaften, finally. I am currently reading MWQ in conjunction with Underworld, by Don DeLillo - there are interesting similarities of style, focus, the effort to draft something as yet shapeless into tangible presence. Well, enough. Thank you again! Regards, Malcolm Lawrence

From: jharris@worldweb.net
Date: Sun Sep 21 19:21:17 1997
Jerry,

Your comments:

I just went on an very enjoyable journey though your English webpages on Musil. I must say that you deserve many kudos for your thorough biographical and literary pages. With your permission I would be happy to add a link to my Musil Institut webpage so that anyone visiting my page will automatically have access to yours as well. I'd also be happy to refer your URL to the information inquiries that I receive occasionally. Keep up the good work!!! Sincerely, Cindy Cynthia Uleman
Executive Director
Musil Institut
jharris@worldweb.net