Rohwolt Verlag 1983. 2159 pp. Guter Zustand. TEXT in GERMAN.
Band 1: Erstes und Zweites Buch. Band
2: Aus dem Nachlaß. (komplett).
The Man Without Qualities (German: Der
Mann ohne Eigenschaften; 19301943) 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, and 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 one single theme dominates.