The Man Without Qualities (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Musil
- First Published: 1978
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social morality
- Time of Work: 1913-1914
- Setting: Kakania, a fictionalized Austro-Hungarian Empire
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Politics, Murder or homicide, 1910’s, Ethics, Monarchy, Austro-Hungarian Empire
- Locales: Austro-Hungarian Empire, Kakania (fictive)
Characters Discussed
Ulrich (EWL-reekh), the man without qualities, a handsome and unattached thirty-year-old. He has taken a vacation from life, letting the events of the external world move him without motivation in any direction. An “officer” without military commission, through the intercession (or intervention) of his domineering father, he drifts into a leadership role in the planning of the Collateral Campaign, a celebration of two anniversaries important to the Austro- Hungarian political profile. Ulrich is the ultimate “observer” character who becomes the...
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