Man Without Qualities - Picador Classic

Zusatztext There is scarcely a page that does not provoke new thoughts or offer new insights! not a chapter that! even read on its own! does not prove stimulating Informationen zum Autor Robert Musil (1880 - 1942) was an Austrian writer. Trained as an engineer, Musil eventually turned to literature. The unfinished Man Without Qualities is considered his greatest work, and earned him a Nobel Prize nomination. Klappentext A man matters, his experiences matter, but in a city, where experiences come by the thousands, we can no longer relate them to ourselves, and this is of course the beginning of life's notorious turning into abstraction. In 1913 the Viennese aristocracy are gathering to celebrate the seventieth jubilee of the accession of Emperor Franz Josef, even as the Austro-Hungarian Empire is collapsing and the rest of Vienna is showing signs of rebellion. At the centre of this social labyrinth is Ulrich: a veteran, a seducer and a scientist, yet also a man 'without qualities' and therefore a brilliant and detached observer of his changing world. A classic of the twentieth century, Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities is endlessly thought-provoking, insightful and stimulating. Part satire, part visionary epic, part intellectual tour de force, it is a work of immeasurable importance. 'One of the towering achievements of the European novel' Observer 'Immensely rich and therapeutic, bristling with wit and a sly humour' Sunday Telegraph Part satire, part visionary epic, part intellectual tour de force Zusammenfassung Part satire, part visionary epic, part intellectual tour de force

Product details

• Authors: Robert Musil
• Assisted by: Sophie Wilkins (Translation), Wilkins Sophie (Translation)
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2015
• EAN: 9781447289432
• ISBN: 978-1-4472-8943-2
• No. of pages: 1152
• Series: Picador Classic; Picador Classics; Picador Classic; Picador Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; austria, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Satire, Fiction: general and literary, Satirical fiction and parodies, Classic fiction: general and literary