『ムージル著作集 第2巻 特性のない男 2巻』｜感想・レビュー - 読書メーター
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“The secret of a good librarian is that he never reads anything more of the literature in his charge than the title and the table of contents. Anyone who lets himself go and starts reading a book is lost as a librarian...He's bound to lose perspective.”
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Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities“His appearance gives no clue to what his profession might be, and yet he doesn't look like a man without a profession either. Consider what he's like: He always knows what to do. He knows how to gaze into a woman's eyes. He can put his mind to any question at any time. He can box. He is gifted, strong-willed, open-minded, fearless, tenacious, dashing, circumspect—why quibble, suppose we grant him all those qualities—yet he has none of them! They have made him what he is, they have set his course for him, and yet they don't belong to him. When he is angry, something in him laughs. When he is sad, he is up to something. When something moves him, he turns against it. He'll always see a good side to every bad action. What he thinks of anything will always depend on some possible context—nothing is, to him, what it is: everything is subject to change, in flux, part of a whole, of an infinite number of wholes presumably adding up to a super-whole that, however, he knows nothing about. So every answer he gives is only a partial answer, every feeling an opinion, and he never cares what something is, only 'how' it is—some extraneous seasoning that somehow goes along with it, that's what interests him.”
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Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities
『ムージル著作集 第2巻 特性のない男 2巻』｜感想・レビュー - 読書メーター
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おもしろい巻。この小説を巡る言説は多いし、ある程度みてきたが、（この作品には、いろいろとテクストに関する問題は多いものの）現物を読むのがいちばんオモロイ（最近はどんな作品もそうだと感じているが）。一見、物語的な結構がほとんど存在しないようにも読めるのだが、それでも波があり、山場があり、ざわつきがある。それも短編・掌編の名手ならでは。そんな作者の筆にかかると、あらゆる価値観が相対化されて反転されていく。この巻ではたとえば、経済の話やかの有名な図書館司書の話が登場する。シュトゥム将軍も複雑で、興味深いキャラ。
司書は言う。「どうして私が全部の本を織っているのかを知りたいのですね、閣下?そのことなら無論言って差し上げることができます。つまり、一冊も読まないからですよ」「署名と目録以外は決して読まないことです。内容にまで立ち入りようものなら、全体を見晴らすことはできないでしょう!」
In fact, a library, no matter how large or small, is beneficial even if one does not read everything in it. Readers benefit from a moderate balance of what they know and what they don't know, of memory and forgetting.
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