Robert Musil

1880 - 1942

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

country of citizenship: Austria

languages spoken, written or signed: German

educated at: Humboldt University of Berlin

occupation: writer, librarian, novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, engineer

award received: Gerhart Hauptmann prize, Kleist Prize

influenced by: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friedrich Nietzsche, Maurice Maeterlinck, Ernst Mach

official website: www.musilgesellschaft.at

Robert Musil (German: [ˈʁoːbɛʁt ˈmuːzɪl]; 6 November 1880 – 15 April 1942) was an Austrian philosophical writer. His unfinished novel, The Man Without Qualities (German: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften), is generally considered to be one of the most important and influential modernist novels. Source: Wikipedia (en)