The Man Without Qualities: Volume I. Volume II (set of 2 books)

«The Man Without Qualities» — the main novel of Musil. The writer worked on it for more than twenty years but never managed to finish it. Despite this, «The Man Without Qualities» has become one of the greatest works of... German-language literature, which can without exaggeration be called the greatest exploration of the human soul. 1913. The government of the Austro-Hungarian Empire establishes a committee tasked with developing a special plan for the upcoming celebration of the seventieth anniversary of Emperor Franz Joseph's reign in five years. The committee consists of industrialists, bankers, aristocrats, military personnel, and politicians. By chance, a young officer, engineer, and mathematician Ulrich joins their ranks — «a man without qualities», a cynic devoid of a sense of purpose and indifferent to moral norms…