About this title: A new, complete translation in two volumes of the momentous novel described by "The New York Times Book Review" as "unfinished and unfinishable." Documenting the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the novel begins just before World War I to explore the "Age of Anxiety."
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date Published: 1996-12-01
ISBN-13:9780679767879ISBN:0679767878
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780679767879ISBN:0679767878
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Binding: Softcover; Ninth Printing
Publisher: Vintage International / Random House, New York
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780679767879ISBN:0679767878
Description: G+/NONE. 0679767878. Volume one only. Minor to moderate cover edgewear and rubbing to joints, pencil underlining, margin marking and notation throughout.; Vol. 1; Small 8vo 7½"-8" tall; 725 pages; Fiction, chocolate-milk brown tan black / black white theme, fictcat tem. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Vintage Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780679767879ISBN:0679767878
Description: Good. No Dust Jacket. 5.25x8. LIT 024085 Solid soft cover. Mild soiling to the cover and foredges. 3/4 inch closed tear in the middle of the back cover. Name of previous owner on first page. 725 pp. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780679767879ISBN:0679767878
Description: Near Fine. Softcover, excell cond, no markings, no spine creases, very slight shelf wear & mild age tanning to pages, else Fine; 8vo; 725pp. read more
Description: Set in Vienna on the eve of World War I, this great novel of ideas tells the story of Ulrich, ex-soldier and scientist, seducer and skeptic, who finds himself drafted into the grandiose plans for the 70th jubilee of the Emperor Franz Josef. This new... read more
"I'm only about two hundred pages in, but this is without question one of the best books I've ever read. The author's sense of irony and keen, penetrating insight into things in general are delightful and uncanny. There are few authors whose voices have spoken to me this directly--in fact Nabokov's the only one who comes to mind at the moment.
I keep finding observations in this book that could easily be transposed to 2009 America, with only the names changed--points Musil makes about the popular media and how people interact with it could have been written about the OJ Simpson trial--and an underlying theme about the tension (in early 20th century Austria) between scientific thinking and "the soul" is still incredibly poignant and relevant today.
I have tried hard to read this book without pencil in hand, so as to enjoy the flow of the language and ideas without interruption, but I keep finding myself unable to resist underlining things! I'm only writing this review, in fact, because I forgot to bring the book with me to this Starbucks. Otherwise I'd be reading it right now."
"I went through a short phase of being obsessed with pre-WWI Austria when I read this. And also being obsessed with how haphazardly people are formed, probably because it was right after college when I was doing a lot of taking myself apart and putting myself back together again. It's probably a good book to be reading if you need to do that.
Some parts are just sort of entertaining comedy of manners type jabs at aristocratic, bourgeois, and military figures, and their pretentious attitudes that led Autria blindly down the path to a disastrous war.
Talking about it is making me want to read it again."
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