The novel, both deep and complex, deals with the moral and intellectual decline of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It takes as its setting Vienna on the eve of World War I. Musil served as an officer in the Austrian army at the front between 1914 - 1918.
Bibliography
1906 Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törless
1911 Vereinigungen
1921 Die Schwärmer
1924 Vinzenz und die Freundin bedeutender Männer
1924 Drei Frauen
1936 Nachlass zu Lebzeiten
1937 Über die Dummheit
1930, 1933, 1943 Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften
External links
Comprehensive site in Dutch and English (http://www.xs4all.nl/~jikje/)
The website of the Robert Musil Literature Museum (http://www.musilmuseum.at/)
Musil was born in family of a poor farmer and was given to study to be priest.
Musil took up bible study in newly opened religious institute in Jerusalem but left in disappointment after 14 months.
Musil worked for the Charles University until 1938, but was active until the very end of his life (he died due to kidney disfunction joined by a lung disease).
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