num_pages: 1774
description: Although he wrote a handful of other works, Austrian Robert Musil's (1880-1942) reputation as one of the greatest modern German writers is based almost entirely on The Man Without Qualities. The first three parts were published in the early '30s, and Musil continued working on it when he flied for Geneva in 1938. Even unfinished, this parallel investigation of Ulrich (the rather detached, meditative ''man without qualities'') and the final years of Hapsburg Austria, is some 1200 pages. A new two-volume boxed translation by PEN translation prize winner Sophie Wilkins is increased by half by Burton Pike's translation of posthumous papers that include an unfinished draft of part four and Musil's notes, musings and sketches for subsequent installments.
language: English
title: The Man Without Qualities
titlecomplete: The Man Without Qualities (2 volume set)
characters: Franz Joseph I of Austria, Dr. Paul Arnheim, Ulrich
genres: Fiction, Philosophy, German Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Germany, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 6584
places: Austro-Hungarian Empire, Vienna
series: The Man Without Qualities
awards: awardedAt: -378662400000
name: Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger
category: Novel, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Национална награда „Христо Г. Данов“
category: Преводна художествена литература
publisher: Alfred A. Knopf