The Man Without Qualities
Published on 16. September 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
1152 pages
978-1-4472-1187-7 (ISBN)
Description
Ulrich has no qualities in the sense that his self-awareness is completely divorced from his abilities. He is drawn into a project, the "Parallel Campaign", to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Emperor Franz Joseph's coronation in 1918.
Reviews / Votes
I would recommend Sophie Wilkins' translation as a conscientious attempt to give to the English reader a novel which is compared to The Remembrance of Things Past and Ulysses. * The Times * There is scarcely a page that does not provoke new thoughts or offer new insights, not a chapter that, even read on its own, does not prove stimulating. * Scotsman * At last, at last - the fully-fleshed arrival in English of the third member of the trinity in twentieth-century fiction, complementing Ulysses and The Remembrance of Things Past . . . This last-waltz novel is amazingly contemporary. * Wall Street Journal * Immensely rich and therapeutic, bristling with wit and a sly humour. * Sunday Telegraph *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pan Macmillan
Target group
Interest Age: From 18 years
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 131 mm
Thickness: 51 mm
Weight
779 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4472-1187-7 (9781447211877)
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E-Book
02/2017
Picador
€21.99
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