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The Man Without Qualities

Robert Musil

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1930
Originally in
Originally in German
Pages
Pages 1774

In the last gilded year of the Austro-Hungarian empire, a brilliant man who cannot commit to being anything joins a committee planning a jubilee for an empire about to vanish.

If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.
The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil

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