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The Man without Qualities (v. 2)
ISBN: 9780330482721
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Edition: New edition
Scientist, seducer and sceptic, Ulrich is the man without qualities, disdaining the morals of old Europe as he yearns for something to replace them. In 1913 in Vienna he finds what he is looking for in his sister. Volume two comprises "Into The Millennium" and "From The Posthumous Papers". More
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Acknowledged as one of the landmark works of twentieth-century literary modernism. The Man Without Qualities is at once a prodigiously fecund novel of ideas and a pitch-perfect evocation of a lost world, the Austrian empire on the eve of the World War 1. 'The man without qualities' is Ulrich. Scientist, seducer and sceptic, he disdains the moral givens of the old Europe even as he yearns for something to replace them. In 1913, as Vienna's high society seethes with preparations for the Emperor's seventieth jublilee, Ulrich finds the thing he is looking for in the person of his sister Agathe, a woman as charming as she is amoral, as irresistable as she is appalling. Volume II of the Picador edition comprises the sections Into The Millennium and From The Posthumous Papers.
