Robert Musil
Born
in Klagenfurt, Austria
November 06, 1880
Died
April 15, 1942
Genre
Influences
The Confusions of Young Törless
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377 editions
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1906
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The Man Without Qualities
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212 editions
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1930
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The Man Without Qualities: Volume I
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108 editions
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1930
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The Man Without Qualities: Volume II
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32 editions
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1933
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Drei Frauen
96 editions
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1924
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Aptallık Üzerine
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65 editions
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1937
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Nachlaß zu Lebzeiten
53 editions
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1936
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Five Women
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25 editions
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1924
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Niteliksiz Adam II
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The man Without Qualities, Vol. 1: A Sort of Introduction- The Like of It Now Happens
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“The secret of a good librarian is that he never reads anything more of the literature in his charge than the title and the table of contents. Anyone who lets himself go and starts reading a book is lost as a librarian...He's bound to lose perspective.”
― The Man Without Qualities
― The Man Without Qualities
“His appearance gives no clue to what his profession might be, and yet he doesn't look like a man without a profession either. Consider what he's like: He always knows what to do. He knows how to gaze into a woman's eyes. He can put his mind to any question at any time. He can box. He is gifted, strong-willed, open-minded, fearless, tenacious, dashing, circumspect—why quibble, suppose we grant him all those qualities—yet he has none of them! They have made him what he is, they have set his course for him, and yet they don't belong to him. When he is angry, something in him laughs. When he is sad, he is up to something. When something moves him, he turns against it. He'll always see a good side to every bad action. What he thinks of anything will always depend on some possible context—nothing is, to him, what it is: everything is subject to change, in flux, part of a whole, of an infinite number of wholes presumably adding up to a super-whole that, however, he knows nothing about. So every answer he gives is only a partial answer, every feeling an opinion, and he never cares what something is, only 'how' it is—some extraneous seasoning that somehow goes along with it, that's what interests him.”
― The Man Without Qualities
― The Man Without Qualities
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