![]() ![]() Part satire, part visionary epic, part intellectual tour de force Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Part satire, part visionary epic, part intellectual tour de force, The Man Without Qualities is a work of immeasurable importance. With an introduction by Jonathan Lethem It is 1913, and Viennese high society is determined to find an appropriate. Unable to deceive himself that the jumble of attributes and values that his world has bestowed on him amounts to anything so innate as a 'character', he is effectively a man 'without qualities', a brilliant, detached observer of the spinning, racing society around him. The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic. Caught in the middle of this social labyrinth is Ulrich: youngish, rich, an ex-soldier, seducer and scientist. The man without qualities by Musil, Robert, 1880-1942 Publication date 1980 Topics German fiction Publisher New York : Perigee Books Collection inlibrary printdisabled internetarchivebooks americana Digitizing sponsor Internet Archive Contributor Internet Archive Language English Translation of: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften v. But as the aristocracy tries to salvage something illustrious out of the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the ordinary Viennese world is beginning to show signs of more serious rebellion. ![]() It is 1913, and Viennese high society is gripped by a mission to find an appropriate way of celebrating the seventieth jubilee of the accession of Emperor Franz Josef. ![]()
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