It was originally planned as two volumes (19), containing four parts. It has a particular concern with the values of truth and opinion and how society organizes ideas about life and society. 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. His unfinished novel, The Man Without Qualities, is generally considered to be one of the most important and influential modernist novels. Robert Musil (1880-1942) was an Austrian philosophical writer. plus a 1 page list of the works of Musil. The wrapper is in an easily removed clear plastic protective cover. The front flap has been clipped with a price sticker beside the clip. The dustwrapper is also very good with light shelf wear. The book is in excellent condition and the contents are tight and clean with no inscription. The book is bound in the original maroon boards with gold titling on the spine. For sale is a reprint of volume 2, containing Part 2 (II), being the continuation of The Like of it Now Happens. This English translation was intended as four volumes.

A third volume, which remained unfinished, was published posthumously.

The man without qualities vol 2