The Man Without Qualities
by Robert Musil
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Read in August, 2007
recommends it for:
philosphical at heart
I'm up to page 68 so can't, as yet, provide a review. It seems to draw a lot on Nietsche, Shiller, Hegel and the German canon. I am tantilised by it's potential and shall give a better account once I am further through it or (gasp) finish it!
Update: This book seems self conscious and I'm afraid I read it rather self consciously. I can't say at any point I just merged into the narrative or allowed the story to take me away. It had a spirit of brilliance, to be sure, but it never quite reached...more
Update: This book seems self conscious and I'm afraid I read it rather self consciously. I can't say at any point I just merged into the narrative or allowed the story to take me away. It had a spirit of brilliance, to be sure, but it never quite reached...more
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Read in June, 2008
A comic novel. A modern novel. A novel of ideas and more. This is without a doubt my favorite novel and one that both encapsulates and foreshadows the the development of the modern condition. Musil's scientific mind is able to present a humanistic view of the world of Ulrich and the rest of the characters that inhabit this novel. Continuously inventive and invigorating for the reader.
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my dad told me to read this book. hope i get to it soon. it keeps coming up in conversation. seems to have a lot to it.
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Will someone please name their death metal band Christian Moosbrugger already?
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Read in January, 1992
recommends it for:
the unemployed
I learned from this book to think precisely without expecting a conclusion.
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avg rating (all editions): 4.33 (55 ratings) avg rating (this edition): 4.29 (34 ratings) number of reviews: 5popular shelves
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"The secret of a good librarian is that he never reads anything more of the literature in his charge than the title and the table of contents. Anyone who lets himself go and starts reading a book is lost as a librarian...He's bound to lose perspective."
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