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Review title: This is a great novel, with a weight and wisdom comparable to Flaubert, Stendhal, or Mann.
Product review: Perhaps there's slightly less complexity and sophistication than in the works of these more famous writers. But I also found the narrative to be much more engaging and enjoyable than The Man Without Qualities or Magic Mountain, despite a pace that was just as slow. It's a little less ironic than Stendhal or Musil and more melancholy. It's suffused with an autumnal sense of loss--the loss of love, honor, heroism, and empire--but it doesn't yet describe what takes its place in positive terms, aside from nationalism.
