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Destruction of habitual experience can be considered as the main objective of Robert Musil’s diaries. The diaries contain experiments of perception, which in their structure correspond to the writer’s essays. As a key text – aside from The Man without Qualities – can be regarded the essay Triëdere, which was published in Legacy during Lifetime. By means of isolation of rudiments of reality, reducing the field of perception and choosing unusual angles of observation the diarist differentiates the manners of perception and makes conceivable other than conventional approaches to reality. As a result, the diaries enclose distinctive moments of ‚suddenness‘ which let perceive abyssal depths of reality. The experiments of perception in Musil’s diaries oscillate between epiphanies and essayistic auto reflection.

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