Feeling Bookish Podcast

Robert Musil's Plays & Drama Criticism - Episode No. 34


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We talk with Robert Musil translator Genese Grill about her new book "Theater Symptoms," which features the first ever English translation of Musil's theatrical criticism and new translations of two plays. We talk about legendary Musil translator Burton Pike, the importance of theater in 1920s Vienna, the staging of Musil's play "The Utopians," Martha Nussbaum's book on Greek tragedy "The Fragility of Goodness," Ludwig Wittgenstein, and much more. Learn more about "Theater Symptoms": https://www.contramundumpress.com/theater-symptoms
Music: “Sunday Smooth" by Scott Buckley, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License - www.scottbuckley.com.au.
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