The Man without Qualities

by Robert Musil

A long, uncompleted novel with author's notes begun in the 1920s and first published in German in 1952, ten years after Musil's death. In pre-World War I Austria, Ulrich analyzes life with detachment and cynicism, sex murderer Moosbruger attracts his interest, and reunion with his sister Agathe leads to incest. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 1995.