Bibliography

Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities. Picador 1995.

Translated by Sophie Wilkins, edited by Burton Pyke.

ISBN: 0330349422, 9781447211877.

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Citations

A barometric low hung over the Atlantic. It moved eastward toward a high-pressure area over Russia without as yet showing any inclination to bypass this high in a northerly direction. The isotherms and isotheres were...
Musil: The Man Without Qualities p. 5

Texts

“Have you read all these books?”
Anyone in possession of more than a handful of books, who is in the habit of standing them up side by side on a shelf, must be prepared for one particular question, “Have you read all these books?” Every time we have a guest over, or a man comes in to fix the heating, a quick glance at the shelves is enough to provoke this question. Walter Benjamin cites Anatole France’s retort to the...