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A sort of introduction and pseudo reality prevails the man. Young torless, 1955 and several short stories, but the man without qualities is his major contribution to modern. Excerpt from robert musil s man without qualities volume one translated by eithne wilkins and ernst kaiser picador 1979. In the same year, mann was asked to name outstanding contemporary novels, and he cited only one, the man without qualities. With this publication, the now growing englishlanguage corpus of the author of the confusions of young torless, five women, and the man without qualities is expanded further. Begun in austria in 1921 and left uncompleted at the time of musil s death in 1942, the man without qualities is a surgical examination of the varieties of european intellectual pretense and.
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