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Jul 17, 2010 the opening paragraph of robert musils the man without qualities reveals a narrator who is clinically precise, only reluctantly softening his description of the day at hand. Musil wrote the man without qualities between 1924 and 1942, years during which the talkingup of action and the talkingdown of talk gained a dark and sinister impetus. The two lengthy volumes of the man without qualities, his magnum opus, appeared in german in the early 1930s but were not published in english until 1953. Nicholas spice a very low birth rate in kakania lrb 16.
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