The Man Without Qualities

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it is 1913, and Viennese higli society is gripped by a mission to find an appropriate way of ceiebrating the seventieth jubilee of the accession of Emperor Franz Josef. But as the aristocracy tries to salvage something illustrious out of the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the ordinary Viennese woHd is beginning to show signs of more serious rebellion. Caught in the middle of this social labyrinth is Ulrich: youngish, rich, an ex-soldier, seducer and scientist
Unable to deceive himself that the jumble of attributes and values that his world has bestowed on him amounts to anything so innate as a 'character', he is effectively a man 'without qualities', a brilliant, detached observer of the spinning, racing society around him. Part satire, part visionary epic, part intellectual tour de force. The Man Without Qualities is a work of immeasurable importance.
1 would recommend Sophie Wilklns' translation as a conscientious attempt to give to the English reader a novel which... Tovább

Fülszöveg

it is 1913, and Viennese higli society is gripped by a mission to find an appropriate way of ceiebrating the seventieth jubilee of the accession of Emperor Franz Josef. But as the aristocracy tries to salvage something illustrious out of the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the ordinary Viennese woHd is beginning to show signs of more serious rebellion. Caught in the middle of this social labyrinth is Ulrich: youngish, rich, an ex-soldier, seducer and scientist
Unable to deceive himself that the jumble of attributes and values that his world has bestowed on him amounts to anything so innate as a 'character', he is effectively a man 'without qualities', a brilliant, detached observer of the spinning, racing society around him. Part satire, part visionary epic, part intellectual tour de force. The Man Without Qualities is a work of immeasurable importance.
1 would recommend Sophie Wilklns' translation as a conscientious attempt to give to the English reader a novel which is compared to W Remembrance df Things
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