by Robert Musil · Penguin Classics · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9780141196152
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«Flypaper» is a book of stories and essays by Robert Musil, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (80 pages, in English).
The volume brings together fiction and essays in which Musil observes with symbolic precision subjects such as holidaymakers, monuments, war, blackbirds or a monkey island, and includes the struggle of a fly against flypaper, a small drama narrated with irony and beauty.
The English translation is by Peter Wortsman. It is part of the Penguin Mini Modern Classics collection and the edition was published in 2011.
A point of entry into Robert Musil's short fiction for those who do not want to start with a long novel.
Robert Mathias Musil was an Austrian philosophical writer of novels, short stories and plays. His unfinished novel, The Man Without Qualities, is generally considered to be one of the most important and influential modernist novels. Musil published his first novel, The Confusions of Young Törless, in 1906.
