The Man Without Qualities
first publication date: 1932
original title: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften
original language: German
main subject: Austria-Hungary, World War I, social criticism, rationalism, irrationalism, order, personal identity, utopia, value
narrative location: Vienna
characters: Ulrich, Bonadea, Diotima, Clarisse, Walter, Moosbrugger, Ulrich's father, Hans Tuzzi, Paul Arnheim, Rachel, Leo Fischel, Soliman, Gerda Fischel, Count Leinsdorf, Hans Sepp, General Stumm von Bordwehr, Agathe, Friedel Feuermaul, Gottlieb Hagauer
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The Man Without Qualities (‹See Tfd›German: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften; 1930–1943) is an unfinished modernist novel in three volumes and various drafts, by the Austrian writer Robert Musil. The novel is a "story of ideas", which takes place in the time of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy's last days, and the plot often veers into allegorical digressions on a wide range of existential themes concerning humanity and feelings. It has a particular concern with the values of truth and opinion and how society organizes ideas about life and society. The book is well over a thousand pages long in its entirety, and no one single theme dominates. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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13- date of publication: 1996ISBN-13: 978-0-679-76802-9
- date of publication: 1996ISBN-13: 978-0-679-76787-9
- ISBN-13: 978-1-4472-8943-2
- ISBN-13: 978-0-330-34942-0
- date of publication: 1995ISBN-13: 978-0-394-51052-1
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