Editing Robert Musil (section)

== Later life ==
The last years of Musil's life were dominated by [[Nazism]] and [[World War II]]: the Nazis banned his books. He saw early Nazism first-hand while he was living in Berlin from 1931 to 1933. In 1938, when Austria [[Anschluss|was annexed]] by [[Nazi Germany]], Musil and his Jewish wife, Martha, left for exile in Switzerland, where he died at the age of 61. Martha wrote to Franz Theodor Csokor that he had suffered a stroke.<ref>Der Monat 026/1950, pp. 185–189, on www.ceeol.com</ref>

Only eight people attended his [[cremation]]. Martha cast his ashes into the woods of Mont [[Salève]].<ref>[http://www.sbg.ac.at/exil/lecture_5023.pdf Markus Kreuzwieser] 
 {{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> From 1933 to his death, Musil had been working on Part III of ''The Man Without Qualities''. In 1943 in Lausanne, Martha published a 462-page collection of material from his literary remains, including the 20 [[Galley proof| galley chapters]] withdrawn from Part III before Volume 2 appeared in 1933,<ref name="Bookseller"/> as well as drafts of the final incomplete chapters and notes on the development and direction of the novel.<ref name="Freed"/> She died in Rome in 1949.