Musilesque

It is a position-taking which must avoid the other extreme: the Musilesque situation, in which man founders on the unlivable ideal of an exact, scientific practice of life, which ideal cannot guide practice (E. Heintel, K.-O. Apel).

For one thing, the very fact that Marcel possesses, and unwittingly betrays, an idiosyncratic point of view—the fact that Proust has opted to present him as a decidedly un-Musilesque “man with qualities,” endowing him with a series of propositions and dispositions that map his "world" —tells us something about Prous, confirming that perspective is, so to speak, part of his perspective.

The world is increasingly becoming a Single Central Europe with its Kafkaesque anonymity, Musilesque human-traits-free individuality, or the divided individual without individuality and indivisibility, Orwellesque Newspeak and total control, if not manufacturing, of history.