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Man without Qualities, Vol. 1 by Robert Musil

Man without Qualities, Vol. 1 Robert Musil ebook
Page: 752
Format: pdf
ISBN: 9780679767879
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

It is motionless; as if of stone. Lewis Thomas – Lives of a Cell. So many writers I admire have raved over this novel that I long felt that it was practically my duty to read it, even back in the '70s when the only edition available in the US was the old Capricorn paperback The cover treatment on Volume 3, which was first published in 1960 and reprinted five years later, must be the original design. Physics made pallatable, even quatum physics (in vol III). If so, this one will do for me. A very funny satire on many things, including .. The first book of science essays I encountered. Not without meaning, but the sentences do not move. I have two hours, in round terms, before I can leave. His most famous work and one of the masterpieces of 20th century European literature - The Man Without Qualities - preoccupied him for much of the latter part of his life, but even so was never completed. Do certain books exist largely to remind us of our own intellectual inadequacies? Oops, make that “Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature”, lol.