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Austrian writer, author of the unfinished trilogy The Man Without Qualities (in German, Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften) one of the most important modernist novels. The novel is both deep and complex and deals with the moral and intellectual decline of the Austro-Hungarian empire. The novel is set in Vienna on the eve of World War I. Musil served as an officer in the Austrian army at the front between 1914 - 1918.
Bibliography
- 1906 Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törless
- 1911 Vereinigungen
- 1921 Die Schwärmer
- 1924 Vinzenz und die Freundin bedeutender Männer
- 1924 Drei Frauen
- 1936 Nachlass zu Lebzeiten
- 1937 Über die Dummheit
- 1930, 1933, 1943 Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften