The Man Without Qualities Vol. 1: A Sort of Introduction and Pseudo Reality Prevails
Set in Vienna on the eve of World War I, this great novel of ideas tells the story of Ulrich, ex-soldier and scientist, seducer and skeptic, who finds himself drafted into the grandiose plans for the 70th jubilee of the Emperor Franz Josef. This new translation--published in two elegant...
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Set in Vienna on the eve of World War I, this great novel of ideas tells the story of Ulrich, ex-soldier and scientist, seducer and skeptic, who finds himself drafted into the grandiose plans for the 70th jubilee of the Emperor Franz Josef. This new translation--published in two elegant volumes--is the first to present Musil's complete text, including material that remained unpublished during his lifetime.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780679767879 (0679767878)
Publish date: December 9th 1996
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 725
Edition language: English
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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