title: Robert Musil's 'The Man Without Qualities': A Critical Study (Cambridge Studies in German)
author:  Philip Payne 
description: The book details how Musil subjects leading figures of fin-de-siecle Vienna to intense ironic scrutiny and how, by drawing on his extensive knowledge of philosophy, psychology, politics, sociology and science, he works into his novel essayistic statements which record the state of contemporary European civilisation.
zlib_text: Table of Contents
  Title page
  Introduction
  Contents
  Part I: A Sort of Introduction
  1 From which, remarkably enough, nothing develops
  2 House and home of the man without qualities
  3 Even a man without qualities has a father with qualities
  4 If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility
  5 Ulrich
  6 Leona, or a change in viewpoint
  7 In a weak moment Ulrich acquires a new mistress
  8 Kakania
  9 The first of three attempts to become a great man
  10 The second attempt. Notes toward a morality for the man without qualities
  11 The most important attempt of all
  12 The lady whose love Ulrich won after a conversation about sports and
  mysticism
  13 A racehorse of genius crystallizes the recognition of being a man without
  qualities
  14 Boyhood friends
  15 Cultural revolution
  16 A mysterious malady of the times
  17 Effect of a man without qualities on a man with qualities
  18 Moosbrugger
  19 A letter of admonition and a chance to acquire qualities. Rivalry of two
  accessions to the t