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The Man Without Qualities, Volume 1

by Robert Musil

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Part satire, part visionary epic, part intellectual tour de forceIt is 1913, and Viennese high society is gripped by a mission to find an appropriate way of celebrating the seventieth jubilee of the accession of Emperor Franz Josef. But as the ar... Read more
Part satire, part visionary epic, part intellectual tour de forceIt is 1913, and Viennese high society is gripped by a mission to find an appropriate way of celebrating the seventieth jubilee of the accession of Emperor Franz Josef. But as the aristocracy tries to salvage something illustrious out of the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the ordinary Viennese world is beginning to show signs of more serious rebellion. Caught in the middle of this social labyrinth is Ulrich: youngish, rich, an ex-soldier, seducer and scientist.Unable to deceive himself that the jumble of attributes and values that his world has bestowed on him amounts to anything so innate as a ''character'', he is effectively a man ''without qualities'', a brilliant, detached observer of the spinning, racing society around him. Part satire, part visionary epic, part intellectual tour de force, The Man Without Qualities is a work of immeasurable importance. Less

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File size8.05x5.2x1.37inches
Print pages752
PublisherVintage
Publication date December 1, 1996
Languageeng
ISBN9780679767879
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Robert Musil
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Robert Musil (6 Nov 1880-15 April 1942), born in Vienna, was trained as a mathematician, behavioral psychologist, engineer, and philosopher. During World War I, he served as an officer in the Austrian...

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