Flypaper

<p><b>'They no longer hold themselves up with all their might, but sink a little and at that moment appear totally human'</b></p><p>Of the very first rank of prose stylists, Robert Musil captures a scene's every telling detail and symbolic aspect with a precise and remarkable beauty. In these nine stories and essays, he considers holidaymakers and stone monuments, tales of war and blackbirds, and the great pathos of a tiny death: a fly's impossible fight against the grip of flypaper.</p><p>This book includes <i>Flypaper</i>, <i>Monkey Island</i>, <i>Fisherman on the Baltic</i>, <i>Sheep</i>, A<i>s Seen in Another Light</i>, <i>Sarcophagus Cover</i>, <i>Monuments</i>, <i>The Paint Spreader</i>, <i>It's Lovely Here</i> and <i>The Blackbird</i>.</p>