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Title: Man Without Qualities,The
Author: MUSIL ROBERT
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 28/02/2017
Imprint: PICADOR
Price: $45.00
Publishing status: Active
It is 1913, and Viennese high society is gripped by a mission 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, <i>The Man Without Qualities</i> is a work of immeasurable importance.
ISBN: 9781447289432
Dimension: 197mm X 130mm
Pages: 1152
Edition: 01