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    <body><![CDATA[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!<br/><br/>Update: This book seems self conscious and I'm...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1469064">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a world masterpiece. Musil seems to me everything that Mann isn't: Totally engaged with humanity while at the same time a superb, highly nuanced commentator on his society, time and the human condition. I've also picked up the newer translation but haven't read it yet. If the big, soaring, g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44286520">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is so inspiring, that I could rarely read more then a few pages at time. It gives you so much to think about. It is though very dense and therefore really is not an easy read. I find this book life changing.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Blows your mind.  Read it over a decade ago and still recovering.  In a good way.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[how do I review the greatest work of art of all time? how do I review a book that rubbishes the superlatives I would use to praise it? just buy this and set off on the journey through the 1100 pages.......]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite novels. Musil's magnum opus, the epitome of 20th-century literature, which shows to the limit what a novel can do.]]></body>
    
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