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Robert Musil's _The Man Without Qualities_

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Naomi K
Oct 18, 2013
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Well, actually I finished it like two days ago. It was pretty good. Incredibly dense, though. It helped once I realized that all the philosophy (in the second book, the main character spends a lot of time trying to figure out...something, regarding the nature of feeling and emotions) was intentionally a bit muddled and contradictory.

However, there is so…

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