Books for Prep | |
by: Robert Musil  Price: $199.99 Prices subject to change.Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Dewey Decimal Number: 833.912 EAN: 9780394510521 Edition: 1st Format: Box set ISBN: 0394510526 Label: Knopf Manufacturer: Knopf Number Of Pages: 1774 Publication Date: April 04, 1995 Publisher: Knopf Release Date: April 04, 1995 Studio: Knopf Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: 2 Volume Boxed Set Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A Rosetta Stone of PhilosophyThis is Musils philosophical masterpiece set in 1914 prior to the Great War and collapse of the Ausro-Hungarian empire. The story line-for what its worth-concerns Ulrich (the titular man without qualities) involvement in the 'Parallel Campaign' with many sub plots and themes concerning the sex murderer Moosbrugger; Ulrichs estrangement from his childhood friend Walter;his affair with Bonedea;his sisters leaving her husband. Entwined around this framework, Musil explores what is reality? ... Read More Rating:  - A Vast Baroque Folly"The Man without Qualities" is a strange work indeed. It was left unfinished at the author's death, but nevertheless runs to well over 1,000 pages. There is very little in the way of coherent plot. The action is set in the latter part of 1913 and the early part of 1914, the last months of peace before the outbreak of World War I, and what plot there is centres upon the activities of a committee set up to explore ways of celebrating the seventieth anniversary of the accession of the Emperor Franz Josef of ... Read More Rating:  - Do you want commentary or the author's original?I would give this excellent set of critiques, edited by the estimable Harold Bloom, four stars except for its misleading label. Despite the byline, this is NOT Robert Musil's work or even a condensed version. These are very helpful commentaries, but if you want the original, you must go elsewhere. Rating: - Confused informationThis book says: by Robert Musil's, but it is not. Review carefuly before to be sure it is the one you are looking for Rating:  - Quality of ManOf all the great European novelists of the first third of the century -- Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Knut Hamsun, Herman Hesse -- Robert Musil is far and away the least read; and yet he's as shapely as Gibbon, as mordant as Voltaire, as witty as Oscar Wilde and as indecent as Arthur Schnitzler, a fellow Viennese writer who gets more attention. "The Man Without Qualities" is an extraordinary amalgam of the formidable, the delicious and ... Read More 
In association with Amazon.com | |