The Man Without Qualities
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Key facts
- Author
- Robert Musil
- Original title
- Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften
- Language
- German
- Genre
- Modernist novel , philosophical novel , historical novel
- Publisher
- Rowohlt Verlag
- Publication date
- 1930–1943
- Publication place
- Austria
- Media type
- Print ( hardcover & paperback )
- Pages
- 1,130 (the core text); 1,774 (complete English translation)
- Library of congress classification span
- PT2625.U8 M3
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Robert Musil
- Genre
- historical fiction
- Country of origin
- Austria
- Original language
- German
- Main subject
- value
- Depicts
- Richard Wagner
- Narrative location
- Vienna
- Image
- Robert Musil - Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften, 1930.jpg
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- title
- Ar-rajul alladhî lâ khisâla lahu
- publication date
- 1932-00-00
- inception
- 2000-00-00
- first line
- Über dem Atlantik befand sich ein barometrisches Minimum; es wanderte ostwärts, einem über Rußland lagernden Maximum zu, und verriet noch nicht die Neigung, diesem nördlich auszuweichen.
- set in period
- 1914
- work available at URL
- musilonline.at/musiltext
- language of work or name
- German
- form of creative work
- novel
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Encyclopedic overview
The Man Without Qualities (German: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften; 1930–1943) is an unfinished modernist novel in three volumes and various drafts, by the Austrian writer Robert Musil.
The novel is a "story of ideas", which takes place in the time of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy's last days. The plot often veers into allegorical digressions on a wide range of existential themes concerning humanity and feelings. It has a particular concern with the values of truth and opinion and how society organizes ideas about life and society. The book is well over a thousand pages long in its entirety, and no single theme dominates.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Man Without Qualities” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.