Translation of Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften. They are each of them worth getting and this unique work worth reading and rereading. Neither Musil seems a likely candidate for the role of novelist, even in that hotbed of modernism that was the Austro-Hungarian Empire during its … 2: Into the Millennium, The Confusions of Young Törless (Oxford Worlds Classics), The Recognitions (New York Review Books Classics), Agathe: Or, The Forgotten Sister (New York Review Books Classics). The Man Without Qualities brought Musil only mediocre commercial success. And this becomes quite hard work - I ended up reading with the pencil in my hand- but it is really rewarding if you are up to 1000 pages of ideas. PREVIEW 8 Songs, 30 Minutes. I was also lucky to find a first edition set of hard copies at a bookshop in Boston. In the mold of Aurelius, disguised as a novel, most of those hundreds of pages are quotable. Musil did. Anyone who lets himself go and starts reading a book is lost as a librarian...He's bound to lose perspective.” Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. Robert Musil (Author) FORMAT. The book is as much about the main character as it is about Austria before the outbreak of the First World War: both Ulrich and Austria are experiencing severe identity crises. Musil seems to me everything that Mann isn't: Totally engaged with humanity while at the same time a superb, highly nuanced commentator on his society, time and the human condition. PREVIEW Why Why Not. So every answer he gives is only a partial answer, every feeling an opinion, and he never cares what something is, only 'how' it is—some extraneous seasoning that somehow goes along with it, that's what interests him.”, Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger for Novel (1958), Национална награда „Христо Г. Данов“ for Преводна художествена литература (2009). This intriguing landmark of modernism from Austrian writer Robert Musil has been newly translated from the German by Sophie Wilkins and re-edited in a textual overhaul. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published It is though very dense and therefore really is not an easy read. His range is breathtaking, encompassing the intellect, the erotic and the spiritual, he is funny and at times sublime, and his prose is perfection. 6. The Man Without Qualities is like one of those theoretical heavenly bodies that gather mass as they move, and not at the speed of light, but at something less than the speed of life. Continuously inventive and invigorating for the reader, the writing is so precise and the argument Musil makes about Ulrich and his situation so intricate that it is intellectually and aesthetically involving even before it becomes emotionally so. To create our... 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. Musil inspires without trying to inspire, is wise without preaching. The incomplete novel offers a panorama of social, cultural, and intellectual life in Vienna from August 1913 until the outbreak of war. Rather, the reader watches Ulrich, the man without qualities, as he goes about his life in 1913 Austria. The main characters of this fiction, classics story are , . I'm not one for superlatives, but this has to be the greatest novel I have ever read, hands down (even including the Brother's Karamazov - it is almost as if this book carried the former's concerns into the 20th century, evolving them in the process). 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