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The Man Without Qualities Vol. 2: Into the Millennium, from the Posthumous Papers
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780679768029
ISBN: 0679768025
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 1072
Publication Date: December 09, 1996
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: December 09, 1996
Studio: Vintage
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Editorial Review:
"Musil belongs in the company of Joyce, Proust, Kafka, and Svevo. . . . (This translation) is a literay and intellectual event of singular importance."--New Republic.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Just reemerged novel on the knife edge of the 19th and 20th centuries
This extraordinary novel, told in non-linear time and with many eddies and currents, captures the last of the "golden years" of the 19th century--technically the early 20th--when people in Vienna still clung to their traditions, their emperor, their rigid social order. A microscopic look at the middle European world before the abyss told through the viewpoint of a highly attractive and intellectual man, too individual for his time, a man, perhaps, of the future.
Rating: - Nothing less than five stars!
The last reviewer obviously does NOT appreciate Musil in any true sense. There are no "unnecessarily longwinded, only somewhat interesting, conversations" --the reader who thinks this way has definitely ignored Musil's central concept of "Essayismus," which is essential to any understanding of the book. With this "essayism" Musil strove to find the perfect balance between the antipodes of life--art and science (clearly evident in the book's style), precision and soul, intuition and logic. It is the ... Read More
Rating:  - "the man without qualities" has some qualities
this 1800 page book has been placed in the same league as "the remembrance of things past" and joyce's "ulysses". if one is not put off by musil's antisemitism, and unnecessarily longwinded, only somewhat interesting, conversations, one is more than rewarded by musil's keen obervational skills and ability to portray highly ideosyncratic, pathological, psychological states. musil is a genius at capturing the subtleties of sexual relations and their consequences. in my opinion, musil lacks the basic humanity ... Read More
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