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The Man Without Qualities
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Author : Robert Musil
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-02
The Man Without Qualities written by Robert Musil and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02 with categories.
The Man Without Qualities as a novel is a "story of ideas", which takes place in the time of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy's last days, and the plot often veers into allegorical digressions on a wide range of existential themes concerning humanity and feelings. It has a particular concern with the values of truth and opinion and how society organizes ideas about life and society. A 32-year-old mathematician named Ulrich who is in search of a sense of life and reality but fails to find it. His ambivalence towards morals and indifference to life has brought him to the state of being "a man without qualities", depending on the outer world to form his character. A kind of keenly analytical passivity is his most typical attitude. Musil once said that it is not particularly difficult to describe Ulrich in his main features. Ulrich himself only knows he is strangely indifferent to all his qualities. Lack of any profound essence and ambiguity as a general attitude to life are his principal characteristics. Meanwhile, we meet a murderer and rapist, Moosbrugger, who is condemned for his murder of a prostitute. Other protagonists are Ulrich's mistress, Bonadea, and Clarisse, his friend Walter's neurotic wife, whose refusal to go along with commonplace existence leads to Walter's insanity. Robert McCrum ranked it one of the top 10 books of the 20th century: "This is a meditation on the plight of the little man lost in a great machine. One of Europe's unquestioned 20th-century masterpieces."
The Man Without Qualities Vol 1
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Author : Robert Musil
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 1996-12-09
The Man Without Qualities Vol 1 written by Robert Musil and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-12-09 with Fiction categories.
Set in Vienna on the eve of World War I, this great novel of ideas tells the story of Ulrich, ex-soldier and scientist, seducer and skeptic, who finds himself drafted into the grandiose plans for the 70th jubilee of the Emperor Franz Josef. This new translation--published in two elegant volumes--is the first to present Musil's complete text, including material that remained unpublished during his lifetime.
The Man Without Qualities The Like Of It Now Happens Ii
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Author : Robert Musil
language : en
Publisher: Pan
Release Date : 1979
The Man Without Qualities The Like Of It Now Happens Ii written by Robert Musil and has been published by Pan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Fiction categories.
George Haskel, a retired professor of German literature, decides to found an institute to promote dullness, as a counterpoint to the hustling celebrity culture of contemporary America. The venture soon attracts a number of brilliant misfits, who transform the project into a political movement, the Authentic Party, that ultimately swells to 8 million members. Events begin to overtake George and his merry band, as luminaries such as Bill Maher, Woody Allen, and Jerry Brown get on board. The final showdown with the White House threatens a coup d'état: Will America undertake a radical shift in the direction of authenticity, or will it remain committed to business as usual? -Amazon.
Agathe
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Author : Robert Musil
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2019-12-17
Agathe written by Robert Musil and has been published by New York Review of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-17 with Fiction categories.
From the author of 'A Man without Qualities,' a novel about spirituality in the modern world. Agathe is the sister of Ulrich, the restless and elusive “man without qualities” at the center of Robert Musil’s great, unfinished novel of the same name. For years Agathe and Ulrich have ignored each other, but when brother and sister find themselves reunited over the bier of their dead father, they are electrified. Each is the other’s spitting image, and Agathe, who has just separated from her husband, is even more defiant and inquiring than Ulrich. Beginning with a series of increasingly intense “holy conversations,” the two gradually enlarge the boundaries of sexuality, sensuality, identity, and understanding in pursuit of a new, true form of being that they are seeking to discover. Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities is perhaps the most profoundly exploratory and unsettling masterpiece of twentieth-century fiction. Agathe, or, The Forgotten Sister reveals with new clarity a particular dimension of this multidimensional book—the dimension that meant the most to Musil himself and that inspired some of his most searching writing. The outstanding translator Joel Agee captures the acuity, audacity, and unsettling poetry of a book that is meant to be nothing short of life-changing.
The Man Without Qualities
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Author : Robert Musil
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2017-02-23
The Man Without Qualities written by Robert Musil and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-23 with Fiction categories.
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.
The Man Without Qualities
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Author : Robert Musil
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002-01
The Man Without Qualities written by Robert Musil and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-01 with Vienna (Austria) categories.
Scientist, seducer and sceptic, Ulrich is the man without qualities, disdaining the morals of old Europe as he yearns for something to replace them. In 1913 in Vienna he finds what he is looking for in his sister. Volume two comprises Into The Millennium and From The Posthumous Papers.
Precision And Soul
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Author : Robert Musil
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1990
Precision And Soul written by Robert Musil and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Literary Collections categories.
"We do not have too much intellect and too little soul, but too little precision in matters of the soul."—Robert Musil Best known as author of the novel The Man without Qualities, Robert Musil wrote these essays in Vienna and Berlin between 1911 and 1937. Offering a perspective on modern society and intellectual life, they are concerned with the crisis of modern culture as it manifests itself in science and mathematics, capitalism and nationalism, the changing roles of women and writers, and more. Writing to find his way in a world where moral systems everywhere were seemingly in decay, Musil strives to reconcile the ongoing conflict between functional relativism and the passionate search for ethical values. Robert Musil was born in 1880 and died in 1942. His first novel, Young Törless, is available in English. A new two-volume translation by Burton Pike and Sophie Wilkins of The Man without Qualities is forthcoming from Alfred A. Knopf. "Now we have these thirty-one invaluable and entertaining pieces, from an article on 'The Obscene and Pathological in Art' to the equally provocative talk 'On Stupidity,' which, with a new translation of The Man without Qualities forthcoming . . . amount to a literary event for the reader of English comparable to Constance Garnett's massive translation of Chekhov's stories."—Joseph Coates, Chicago Tribune "Musil is one of the few great moderns, one of the handful who ventured to confront the issues that shape and define our time. . . . He has a range and a striking capacity every bit as great as that of Mann, Joyce, or Beckett."—Boston Review "These essays are crucial in understanding a writer and critic whose lifelong task was an attempt to resolve the dichotomy between the precision of scientific form and the soul—the matter of life and art."—Choice
Robert Musil S The Man Without Qualities
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Author : Philip Payne
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1988-08-26
Robert Musil S The Man Without Qualities written by Philip Payne and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-08-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
This, the first comprehensive study of The Man Without Qualities, guides the reader towards Musil's central concerns.
Posthumous Papers Of A Living Author
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Author : Robert Musil
language : en
Publisher: Archipelago
Release Date : 2012-04-21
Posthumous Papers Of A Living Author written by Robert Musil and has been published by Archipelago this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-21 with Fiction categories.
This collection of exploratory pieces, short stories, and reflections was originally published in Zurich in 1936. It was the last volume Robert Musil published before his sudden death in 1942. Musil had begun to fathom the impossibility of com- pleting his monumental masterpiece The Man Without Qualities and this volume reveals a radically different aspect of his work. Musil observes a fly’s tragic struggle with flypaper, the laughter of a horse; he peers through microscopes and telescopes, dissecting both large and small. Musil’s quest for the essential is a voyage into the minute.
The World As Metaphor In Robert Musil S The Man Without Qualities
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Author : Genese Grill
language : en
Publisher: Camden House
Release Date : 2012
The World As Metaphor In Robert Musil S The Man Without Qualities written by Genese Grill and has been published by Camden House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Literary Criticism categories.
The first study to utilize the Klagenfurt Edition of Musil's Nachlass offers a close reading of textual variations, emphasizing Musil's commitment to the artist's role in re-creating the world.