Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften – Dritter Band

The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil’s main oeuvre, is considered one of 20^th century’s most influential novels. The novel was published from 1930 on in three separate volumes. At the centre of it all is Ulrich, a young intellectual in search of a fulfilling and gratifying reason to exist, both professionally and personally, and who in many ways resembles Musil himself. Musil dubs Austria-Hungary and its overwrought and stuffy structures and apparatus “Kakakien”, pointing to the Habsburg monarchy’s imminent demise. The novel serves as a reminder on how story-telling and essayistic recordings of the world can be interwoven in a masterly fashion.