Robert Musil
Born
in Klagenfurt, Austria
November 06, 1880
Died
April 15, 1942
Genre
Influences
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The Confusions of Young Törless
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296 editions
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1906
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The Man Without Qualities
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177 editions
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published
1930
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The Man Without Qualities: Volume I
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72 editions
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published
1930
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The Man Without Qualities: Volume II
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48 editions
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published
1933
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Drei Frauen
86 editions
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published
1924
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Aptallık Üzerine
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56 editions
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published
1937
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Nachlaß zu Lebzeiten
4 editions
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published
1936
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Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften I: Erstes und zweites Buch
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20 editions
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published
1930
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Five Women
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4 editions
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1924
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The Man Without Qualities: Vol 3
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22 editions
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1930
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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.”
― The Man Without Qualities
― The Man Without Qualities
“His appearance gives no clue to what his profession might be, and yet he doesn't look like a man without a profession either. Consider what he's like: He always knows what to do. He knows how to gaze into a woman's eyes. He can put his mind to any question at any time. He can box. He is gifted, strong-willed, open-minded, fearless, tenacious, dashing, circumspect—why quibble, suppose we grant him all those qualities—yet he has none of them! They have made him what he is, they have set his course for him, and yet they don't belong to him. When he is angry, something in him laughs. When he is sad, he is up to something. When something moves him, he turns against it. He'll always see a good side to every bad action. What he thinks of anything will always depend on some possible context—nothing is, to him, what it is: everything is subject to change, in flux, part of a whole, of an infinite number of wholes presumably adding up to a super-whole that, however, he knows nothing about. So every answer he gives is only a partial answer, every feeling an opinion, and he never cares what something is, only 'how' it is—some extraneous seasoning that somehow goes along with it, that's what interests him.”
― The Man Without Qualities
― The Man Without Qualities
Polls
Fourth Quarter 2014 Long Read
1862, Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, 1463 pages
1605, Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 982 pages
1954, The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1178 pages
1872, Middlemarch by George Eliot, 904 pages
1844, The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, 1276 pages
1874, The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne, 723 pages
1957, Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, 1168 pages
1993, A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth, 1474 pages
1996, Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, 1079 pages
1930, The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil, 1774 pages
1748, Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson, 1534 pages
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