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 With an introduction by Jonathan Lethem It is 1913, and Viennese high society is determined to find an appropriate way of celebrating the seventieth jubilee of the accession of Emperor Franz Josef. 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. Caught in the middle of this social labyrinth is Ulrich: youngish, rich, an ex-soldier, seducer and scientist. 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. Part satire, part visionary epic, part intellectual tour de force, The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil is a work of immeasurable importance. 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