Man without Qualities, Vol. 1

by Robert Musil

Overview

Along the sun-spattered boulevards of Vienna in the year 1913, in its gayest cafés and greyest prisons, in its most brilliant salons and dingiest kitchens, the great Austrian writer, Robert Musil, brings the reader of The Man Without Qualities face to face with life itself. This magnificent novel justly has been compared with the best of modern masterpieces. One must turn to writers of the genius of Joyce and Proust, Stendhal and Dostoyevsky, to find a talent of equal brilliance.
This volume is the first of four which will introduce this masterwork of European literature to the English-speaking world. Complete in itself, it establishes the action and introduces the major themes of the novel.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016113777
Publisher:	Crane Books LLC
Publication date:	12/17/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	409
Sales rank:	529,558
File size:	468 KB

About the Author

Robert Musil, born in Klagenfurt, Austria, in 1880, was the most important novelist writing in Germany in the first half of this century. At the age of twenty-six, after the success of his first novel, he abandoned an academic career in philosophy to devote himself entirely to writing. His voluntary exile in Switzerland after the Anschluss resulted in the banning of his works in Germany. The Man Without Qualities to which he devoted the last twenty years of his life remained uncompleted at the time of his sudden death in Switzerland in 1942.