Man without Qualities, Vol. 1 — Robert Musil

Along the sun-spattered boulevards of Vienna in the year 1913, in its gayest cafés and greyest prisons, in its most brilliant salons and dingiest kitchens, the great Austrian writer, Robert Musil, brings the reader of The Man Without Qualities face to face with life itself. This magnificent novel justly has been compared with the best of modern masterpieces. One must turn to writers of the genius of Joyce and Proust, Stendhal and Dostoyevsky, to find a talent of equal brilliance.

This volume is the first of four which will introduce this masterwork of European literature to the English-speaking world. Complete in itself, it establishes the action and introduces the major themes of the novel.