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Trained as an engineer, musil eventually turned to literature. Continuing her series on the novel, jane smiley discusses the man without qualities by robert musil, who, she says, is long overdue a revival. The man without qualities 3 by robert musil abebooks. The person of an intellectual average can relate to the thoughts and words of mann. Read book the man without qualities by robert musil doc. As far as musil is concerned mann owes his success to the fact that he is the spokesman of the biased liberal intelligentsia, be it a bit more refined. Proxy highlight the 100 books of the century is a list of the one hundred best books of the 20th century, 86, the man without qualities robert musil 19301942, german.
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