The Man Without Qualities, Vol. 1
Set in Vienna on the eve of WWI, adn peopled with some of the most memorable characters in literature, this novel presents a profound, witty, and striking portrait of life as it dissects and tries to define the individual in the modern world.
Set in Vienna on the eve of WWI, adn peopled with some of the most memorable characters in literature, this novel presents a profound, witty, and striking portrait of life as it dissects and tries to define the individual in the modern world.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780399501524 (0399501525)
Publish date: May 17th 1965
Publisher: Perigee Books
Pages no: 365
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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