The Man Without Qualities, Vol. 2: Into the Millennium

"So here it is--at last, at last--the full-fleshed arrival, in English, of the third member of the trinity in 20th-century fiction, complementing 'Ulysses' and 'Remembrance of Things Past'. I am referring, of course, to the second coming of 'The Man Without Qualities'....With few exceptions [Sophie Wilkins, the translator] has devised a deft English equivalent for the ornateness that gives the story its rotogravure-era authenticity, as well as for those elements in Musil's own prose that makes us sit up in our own fin de siecle and say, 'Hey, that's right!'"Robert Musil is the author of 'The Man Without Qualities, Vol. 2: Into the Millennium', published 1996 under ISBN 9780679768029 and ISBN 0679768025.