false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172574290m/191940.jpg 191940 10 This intriguing landmark of modernism from Austrian writer Robert Musil has been newly translated from the German by Sophie Wilkins and re-edited in a textual overhaul. This new edition includes portions of the author's original manuscripts that have never been published before. Though an imposing edifice of writing, devotees of literary modernism and anyone interested in the decline of the Austrian empire must read this sweeping, comic take on life in pre-Great War Vienna. The story of Ulrich, the man without qualities himself, is continued in a second volume, <i>The Man Without Qualities: Into the Millenium,From the Posthumous Papers</i>. 1915946 1953 The Man Without Qualities Vol. 1: A Sort of Introduction and Pseudo Reality Prevails total:355|5:217|4:90|3:35|2:11|1:3| 355 1570 785 56 5 4 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Oct 08 16:55:04 -0700 2007 Thu Jan 15 18:57:25 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 4 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 10 23:45:35 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 24 12:58:00 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 2 false false Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Jul 19 18:40:46 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 31 12:09:12 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Nov 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 11:53:14 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 12:02:21 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 true false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Apr 05 13:02:31 -0700 2007 Wed Apr 18 13:27:55 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Mon Jul 09 20:15:59 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 09 20:23:38 -0700 2007 4 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 18 17:22:05 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 18 17:22:53 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Fri Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996 Tue Feb 17 20:00:56 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 20:11:55 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Oct 07 19:39:48 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 07 19:39:52 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 09 04:12:48 -0700 2008 Sun May 25 23:17:50 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jan 13 08:41:01 -0800 2008 Fri Sep 19 16:03:46 -0700 2008
Wow, this is a great book, and I don't think I'm capable of explaining why that is. The critics compare it to Ulysses and Remembrance of Things Past, but Robert Musil is so much less pompous and overbearing or earnest a writer than Joyce or Proust. He also seems like he's capab...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jun 26 11:18:03 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 26 11:18:03 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Jun 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 19 11:39:48 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 13 18:53:32 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1980 Tue Dec 23 06:33:26 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 24 01:52:51 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Tue Dec 16 16:37:48 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 16 16:39:39 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Sun Mar 15 11:52:33 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 15 11:53:07 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat May 31 09:31:20 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 22 18:15:16 -0700 2008

magisterial redundancy was never so coruscating, thus we have real-ass (massive?) poetry.

the cure for historical imagination, while providing the beautiful hope incumbent to its failure

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