The Man Without Qualities. By Robert Musil. Translated by Eithne Wilkins and George Kaiser. Coward-McCann. 367 pp. $4.00. Robert Musil's Der Mann ohne...
54 months ago

Combining material from Robert Musil's great unfinished novel and from his archives, “Agathe, or the Forgotten Sister” focuses on the...
73 months ago

In the ninety minutes between the time I get into bed and the time a book slips out of my unconscious hand, I read for pleasure.
165 months ago

In the case of Robert Musil's 'The Man without Qualities,' the term novel bears a great deal of stretching.
72 months ago

Even if you haven't read Robert Musil's unfinished modernist masterpiece, The Man Without Qualities, you probably agree that it has a great...
13 months ago

At the age of fifty-six, Robert Musil was already writing of his career in valedictory terms. That year he published the short prose...
30 months ago

The Man Without Qualities is usually regarded as one of the greatest novels yet written. All ambitious readers will want to have a crack at...
102 months ago

Musil was spurred on to the writing of his two finished plays, The Utopians and Vinzenz and the Mistress of Important Men, by his negative assessment of the...
61 months ago

Robert Musil almost chose an officer's career. But he turned to literature instead, and wrote a key 20th century modernist novel, The Man without Qualities.
62 months ago

The novelist, whose A Passage North has been longlisted for the Booker prize, on being inspired by Descartes and the influence of Robert Musil.
53 months ago