We tackle Musil's big, modernist behemoth, but this episode isn't just for Musil readers, it's for anyone who has ever questioned what is modern life and what is it doing to us. We discuss fragmentation in the arts, the disappearance of the sense of a soul and the overriding sense that modern life is unreal, and there is little we can build a foundation on, except perhaps, to understand this singular, paradoxical truth.

Podcast Theme: “Sunday Smooth" by Scott Buckley, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License - www.scottbuckley.com.au.

"Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw9zXepzEzA&feature=emb_logo

Alban Berg (1885-1935): Fünf Orchesterlieder nach Ansichtskarten-Texten von Peter Altenberg, per soprano e grande orchestra op.4 (1912) --- Halina Lukomska, soprano --- Sinfonieorchester des Südwestfunks diretta da Ernest Bour