David Auerbach

Articles

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  The Other Condition: Robert Musil on Theater

  An immensely valuable collection of the great modernist’s plays and theater writings.

  David AuerbachJan 28, 2021

  • Around the World

  • Fiction

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  The Soul of the Body: William Empson’s “The Face of the Buddha”

  David Auerbach on William Empson’s “The Face of the Buddha.”

  David AuerbachMay 7, 2017

  • Art & Architecture

  • History

  • Religion

• Make America Austria Again: How Robert Musil Predicted the Rise of Donald Trump

  What can "The Man Without Qualities" teach us about Donald Trump?

  David AuerbachAug 7, 2016

  • Fiction

  • Politics

• A Delville of a Tolkar: Martin Gardner’s “Undiluted Hocus-Pocus”

  Undiluted Hocus-Pocus has no dramatic revelations to offer about Gardner, but it reveals the mentality that shaped itself around his encyclopedic interests.

  David AuerbachNov 4, 2013

• Revenge of the Dryasdusts: Paul Hazard’s “The Crisis of the European Mind”

  David AuerbachJun 17, 2013

• Scenes from the Resistance: Georges Perec’s “La boutique obscure”

  David AuerbachMar 6, 2013