Burton Pike

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Burton Pike is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center. He received his Ph. D. from Harvard University, and has also taught at the University of Hamburg, Cornell University, and Queens College and Hunter College of the City University of New York. He has also been a Visiting Professor at Yale University. Burton Pike is 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 Klagenfurt, Austria, for his work on Robert Musil. Finalist and special citation, PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for editing and co-translating Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities.

[edit] Books

"Robert Musil, An Introduction to his Work" Cornell University Press

1961 - ISBN 0-8046-1546-2. Reprinted by Kennikat Press, 1972

"The Image of the City in Modern Literature" Princeton University Press

1981 - ISBN 0-6910-6488-1

[edit] Translations

• The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe

2004 - ISBN 0-8129-6990-1

• The Man Without Qualities Volume I by Robert Musil

Translated by Sophie Wilkins and Burton Pike

1996 - ISBN

• The Man Without Qualities Volume II by Robert Musil

Translated by Sophie Wilkins and Burton Pike

1996 - ISBN

"Robert Musil, Selected Writings" Continuum International Publishing Group Editor and part translator

1986 - ISBN 0-8264-0304-2