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2 unusual facts about Musil


HC Pardubice

After that František Musil emigrated to NHL and Jiří Šejba returned to Tesla Pardubice to celebrate the title of League Champion in the seasons of 1986/87 and 1988/1989.

Musil and Šejba won the world championship in Prague in 1985 but at that season they were playing for the army team Dukla Jihlava.


Bartolo Musil

Bartolo Musil has worked with the Venice Baroque Orchestra, conducted by Andrea Marcon, the Wiener Klangforum, the Ensemble Kontrapunkte, the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, the SWR-Orchester, the Orpheus Kammerorchester, the Savaria Baroque Orchestra, Armonio Tributo, conducted by Lorenz Duftschmid, and directors such as Pet Halmen and Achim Freyer.

Philippe Jaccottet

He has translated numerous authors and poets into French, including Goethe, Hölderlin, Mann, Mandelstam, Góngora, Leopardi, Musil, Rilke, Homer and Ungaretti.

The Man Without Qualities

According to Italian writer Alberto Arbasino, Fellini's 1963 film used similar artistic procedures and had parallels with Musil's novel.

Elsa (Berta) von Czuber, whom Musil met while he studied in Brno between 1889 and 1901, inspired him with the image of Ulrich's sister Agathe.

B. Pike, Robert Musil: An Introduction to His Work, Kennikat Press, 1961, reissued 1972.


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