The Man Without Qualities
Robert Musil
Translated by Sophie Wilkins & Sophie Wilkins
Paperback
23 February 2017Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
A modernist masterpiece set in early 20th century Vienna, Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities is a sweeping satire of a society in decline.
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...
Details
23 February 20171152 pages
9781447289432Imprint: Picador
Reviews
The Man Without Qualities is one of the towering achievements of the European novelObserver
I would recommend Sophie Wilkins' translation as a conscientious attempt to give to the English reader a novel which is compared to The Remembrance of Things Past and UlyssesThe Times
Immensely rich and therapeutic, bristling with wit and a sly humourSunday Telegraph
At last, at last - the fully fleshed arrival in English of the third member of the trinity in twentieth-century fiction, complementing Ulysses and The Remembrance of Things Past . . . This last-waltz novel is amazingly contemporaryWall Street Journal
