Masochism and its limits in Robert Musil's 'Die Vollendung der Liebe'.
From: The Modern Language Review
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Date: 7/1/2005
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Author: Bird, Stephanie
This article analyses the theme of masochism in Musil's story 'Die Vollendung der Liebe'. It assesses whether the depiction of a masochistic female protagonist by a male narrator reinscribes a schematic gender polarity and the extent to which the story supports an understanding of masochism that sees it as a radical critique of coherence.
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The impenetrability and difficulty of Robert Musil's short story 'Die Vollendung der Liebe' encourage interpretations that ...
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