L'homme sans qualités, tome 1
by:
Robert Musil (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9782020238151 (2020238152)
Publish date: February 3rd 1995
Publisher: Seuil
Pages no: 864
Edition language: French
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
20th Century,
Culture,
Philosophy,
Modern Classics,
Psychology,
German Literature,
Society,
Germany
A quite remarkable book which, now having read, has immediately become a noticable portion of the furniture of my mind... A fine intoduction (for me) to the modernist ethic and the modernist aesthetic... which I've been seeking to understand (with quite some difficulty) for the past two-plus years.A...
I hated this book. Tedious and hopelessly intellectual without any sympathetic characters (I know, that's the point). It was as though the author never edited it. Like a crappy Swann's Way. I couldn't stand to think of wasting my life on (the unfinished!) volume 2.
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