Robert Musil (November 6, 1880, Klagenfurt, Austria - April 15, 1942, Geneva, Switzerland) was an Austrian writer. His unfinished long novel "The Man Without Qualities" (in German, "Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften") is generally considered to be one of the most important modernist novels. The novel deals with the moral and intellectual decline of the Austro-Hungarian Empire through the eyes of the book's protagonist Ulrich, … Wikipedia
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