Literature and Philosophy: Mysticism in Martin Buber and Richard Musil

In the study at hand, we attempt to trace how Musil disrupts the philosophical discourse of modernity by opening new fields of reflection. He excavates the essence of things through the cries of the inner experience of his characters, locating new fields of existential experiences at the limits of the “other condition”. The degree of opening new passages on the secret unity of existence constitutes a course that is not subject to definitive facts but to a perspectivism that constantly traces the way it exists in the world. At these limits, Buber’s thought as to the unity of soul and world instills a mystical echo that sounds like a redemption to European affairs at the end of the century. Buber therefore gives Musil a new existential meaning that is shaped under the mysticism of the East by deconstructing literary forms during their simultaneous fracture and unification.