Burton Pike (June 12, 1930 - December 22, 2022)''

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'' (accessed March 26, 2016). was a translator of Robert Musil, as well as a distinguished

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and

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and literature at the

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. He did his undergraduate studies at Haverford College and received his PhD from

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. He taught at the

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, and Queens College and Hunter College of the City University of New York. He was also a visiting professor at

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. Burton Pike was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, and a Fulbright fellowship. He was awarded the Medal of Merit by the City of

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, Austria, for his work on Robert Musil. He was a finalist and received a special citation for the

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for editing and co-translating Musil's ''

The Man Without Qualities ''The Man Without Qualities'' (german: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften; 1930–1943) is an unfinished modernist novel in three volumes and various drafts, by the Austrian writer Robert Musil. The novel is a "story of ideas", which takes place in ...

''. He was the winner of the 2012

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for

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's ''Isle of the Dead'', and in 2016 was awarded the Friedrich Ulfers Prize for his work championing German-language literature in the United States.https://publishingperspectives.com/2016/02/burton-pike-on-the-rhythm-of-translation/

Bibliography

Books * ''Robert Musil: An Introduction to his Work'', Cornell University Press, 1961. . Reprinted by Kennikat Press, 1972. * ''The Image of the City in Modern Literature'', Princeton University Press, 1981. Translations * ''Where the Paths Do Not Go'' by Rainer Maria Rilke. 2018 * ''Isle of the Dead'' by

. 2011 * ''

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'' by Rainer Maria Rilke. 2008 * ''

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'' by

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. 2004 * ''

Volume I'' by Robert Musil. 1996 with Sophie Wilkins * ''The Man Without Qualities Volume II'' by Robert Musil. 1996 with Sophie Wilkins * ''Robert Musil, Selected Writings''. Continuum International Publishing Group, 1986. Editor and part translator.

References

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