![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So every answer he gives is only a partial answer, every feeling an opinion, and he never cares what something is, only 'how' it is-some extraneous seasoning that somehow goes along with it, that's what interests him. Robert Musils 'The Man Without Qualities' GBH Forum Network 87K subscribers Subscribe 28K views 8 years ago Harvard literary scholar Susanne Klingenstein discusses Robert Musils 'The Man. What he thinks of anything will always depend on some possible context-nothing is, to him, what it is: everything is subject to change, in flux, part of a whole, of an infinite number of wholes presumably adding up to a super-whole that, however, he knows nothing about. He'll always see a good side to every bad action. When something moves him, he turns against it. When he is angry, something in him laughs. Set in Vienna on the eve of World War I, this great novel of ideas tells the story of Ulrich, ex-soldier and scientist, seducer and skeptic, who finds himself drafted into the grandiose plans for. ![]() He is gifted, strong-willed, open-minded, fearless, tenacious, dashing, circumspect-why quibble, suppose we grant him all those qualities-yet he has none of them! They have made him what he is, they have set his course for him, and yet they don't belong to him. He can put his mind to any question at any time. He knows how to gaze into a woman's eyes. Consider what he's like: He always knows what to do. “His appearance gives no clue to what his profession might be, and yet he doesn't look like a man without a profession either. ![]()
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