biography
| name: |
Musil, Robert (Elder von)
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pronunciation:
[moosil]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1880–1942)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Klagenfurt, S Austria. He was trained as a scientist (he invented a chromatometer) and as a philosopher. During World War 1 he was an officer, and drew on his experience for Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törless (1906, trans Young Törless), a story of life inside a military academy. Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (1930–42, The Man Without Qualities, 1969), his unfinished masterpiece, depicting a society on the brink of an abyss, is widely acknowledged as one of the great novels of the 20th-c, despite the confusion of final drafts which the author did not have time to tidy up before his death. |
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