Burton Pike

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.

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

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 GroupEditor and part translator: 1986 - ISBN 0-8264-0304-2