Robert Musil ( or ; 6 November 1880 – 15 April 1942) was an Austrian writer. His unfinished long novel The Man Without Qualities (German: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften) is generally considered to be one of the most important modernist novels. However, this novel has not been widely read because of its delayed publication and also because of the lengthy and intricate plot. It is, nonetheless, a significant literary achievement that foresaw the impending disaster in Europe after the first world war.
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“Intellectual life is international. Only a period of discouragement, an age that has given up on itself, that wants to ‘preserve,’ that has been driven onto the defensive, can be intellectually nationalist. Such a period is essentially ‘conservative.’ A person who has progress in his heart is international.”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)