![]() ![]() He went to military school as a teenager, then studied civil engineering and spent time in the army. The son of an engineering professor, Musil (1880-1942) delved into several fields before deciding to be an author. With the recent publication by Knopf of the most complete version to date of his massive, unfinished, panoramic novel about Vienna on the eve of World War I, The Man Without Qualities, Musil threatens to become the most frequently discussed of all underrated authors, one whom everyone wants to take credit for discovering.Ĭertainly, Musil should be considered among the great fiction writers of our century, an author of great power and formidable intellect. Gradually, though, Musil's been getting his due. The restoration of Robert Musil's epic novel 'The Man Without Qualities'Īustrian writer Robert Musil's first novel, Young Torless, was published in 1906, and from then until several years ago, he was underappreciated. ![]() ![]() Overqualified: Viennese chronicler Robert Musil ![]()
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