by Robert Musil · tapa dura · ISBN 9788432201981
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«El hombre sin atributos, volume 2» is the novel by Austrian author Robert Musil, published by Seix Barral in hardback (456 pages, in Spanish).
In this instalment, Musil portrays Kakania, a society evoking the declining Austro-Hungarian Empire. Ulrich, the man without qualities, observes his world with irony; the Prussian millionaire Arnheim embodies another form of power. The work, interrupted by the author's death, is an allegory of Europe before the Great War.
This Spanish edition was published in 1992. The original title of the work is «Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften»; this volume corresponds to the second half of the first part.
For readers of classic European fiction and novels of ideas, interested in Central European literature of the twentieth century.
Robert Mathias Musil was an Austrian philosophical writer of novels, short stories and plays. His unfinished novel, The Man Without Qualities, is generally considered to be one of the most important and influential modernist novels. Musil published his first novel, The Confusions of Young Törless, in 1906.
