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This chapter introduces the subject of everyday life and offers a quotation from Robert Musil’s classic work, The Man Without Qualities. Musil suggests that by the middle of our lives, we become caught, like flies, in what we might call the flypaper of life, and we only have the slightest resemblance to “our original shape.” This chapter asks whether Musil is a realist or a pessimist.
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Berger, A.A. (2018). Introduction. In: Perspectives on Everyday Life. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99795-7_1
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