Man without qualities Tr. by Sophie Wilkins
Musil, Robert
Man without qualities Tr. by Sophie Wilkins - London Picador Classic Publishing 2017 - xxi,1130p.
CONTENTS
PART I: A SORT OF INTRODUCTION
1 From which, remarkably enough, nothing develops
2 3 House and home of the man without qualities 6
3 Even a man without qualities has a father with
Qualities 8
4 If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a
sense of possibility 10
5 Ulrich 13
6 Leona, or a change in viewpoint 16
7 In a weak moment Ulrich acquires a new mistress 21
8 Kakania 26
9 The first of three attempts to become a great man 31
10 The second attempt. Notes toward a morality for the
man without qualities 33
11 The most important attempt of all 35
12 The lady whose love Ulrich won after a conversation
about sports and mysticism 38
13 A racehorse of genius crystallizes the recognition of
being a man without qualities 41
14 Boyhood friends 45
15 Cultural revolution 52
16 A mysterious malady of the times 54
17 Effect of a man without qualities on a man with
Qualities 58
18 Moosbrugger 67
19 A letter of admonition and a chance to acquire
qualities. Rivalzy of two accessions to the throne 77
PART II: PSEUDOREALITY PREVAILS
20. A touch of reality. In spite of the absence of qualities
Vlrich takes resolute and spirited action 83
21. the real invention of the Parallel Campaign by Count
Leinsdorf 87
22. The Parallel Campaign, in the form of an influential
ladY of ineffable spiritual grace, stands ready to
devour Ulrich 93
23. A great man's initial intervention 97
24 capital and culture. Diotima's friendship with Count
Leinsdorf, and the office of bringing distinguished
visitors into accord with the soul 100
25 sufferings of a married soul 106
26 The union of soul and economics. The man who can
accomplish this wants to enjoy the baroque charm of
old Austrian culture. And so an idea for the Parallel
campaign is born 110
27 Nature and substance of a great idea 113
28 A chapter that may be skipped by anyone not
particularly impressed by thinking as an occupation 115
29.Explanation and disruptions of a normal
state of awareness 118
30 Ulrich hears voices 122
31 Whose side are you on? 123
32.The forgotten, highly relevant story
of the major's wife 126
33 Breaking with Bonadea 132
34 A hot flash and chilled walls 134
35 Ballk Director Leo Fischel and the Principle of
Insufficient Cause 139
36 Thanks to the above-mentioned Principle the Parallel
carnpaign becomes a tangible reality before anyone
Imows what it is 141
37 By launching the slogan "Year of Austria," a journalist
makes a lot of trouble for Count Leinsdorf, who
issues a frantic call for Ulrich 145
38 Clarisse and her demons 150,
39 A man without qualities consists of qualities without 156
40 A man with all the qualities, but he is indifferent to them. A prince of intellect is arrested, and the and the Parallel Campaign gets its Honorary Secretary 159
41 Rachel and Diotima 172
42 The great session 177
43 Ulrich meets the great man for the first time. Nothing irrational happens in world history,
Leinsdorf, and the office of bringing distinguished but Diotima claims that the True Austria is the
whole world 184
44 Continuation and conclusion of the great session. Ulrich takes a liking to Rachel,
and Rachel to Soliman. The Parallel Campaign gets organized 189
45 Silent encounter of two mountain peaks 194
46 Ideals and morality are the best means for filling that . big hole called soul 198
47 What all others are separately, Arnheim is rolled into one 201
48 The three causes of Arnheim's fame and the Mystery awareness 203
49 Antagonism sprouts between the old and the new Diplomacy 208
50 Further developments. Section Chief Tuzzi decides to inform himself about Arnheim 213
51 The House of Fischel 217
52 Section ChiefTuzzi finds a blind spot in the workings of his ministry 233
53 Moosbrugger is moved to another prison 227
54 In conversation with Walter and Clarisse, Ulrich turns out to be reactionary 229
55 Soliman and Amheim 236
56 The Parallel Campaign committees seethe with activity. Clarisse writes to His Grace proposing a
Nietzsche Year 240
57 Great upsurge. Diotima discovers the strange ways of great ideas 244
58 Qualms about the Parallel Campaign. But in the
history of mankind there is no voluntary turning back 249
59 Moosbrugger reflects 253
6o Excursion into the realm of logic and morals 261
61 The ideal of the three treatises, or the utopia of exact living 263
62 The earth too, but especially Ulrich, pays homage to the utopia of essayism 267
63 Bonadea has a vision 278
64 General Stumm von Bordwehr visits Diotima 288
65 From the conversations between Arnheim and Diotima 290
66 All is not well between Ulrich and Arnheim 293
67 Diotima and Ulrich 298
68 A digression: Must people be in accord with their bodies? 306
69 Diotima and Ulrich, continued 309
70 Clarisse visits Ulrich to tell him a story 314
71 The committee to draft guidelines for His Majesty's
Seventieth Jubilee Celebration opens its first session 319
72 Science smiling into its beard, or a first full-dress encounter with Evil 325
73 Leo Fischel's daughter Gerda 332
74 The fourth century B.c. versus the year 1797. Ulrich receives• another letter from his father 341
75 General Stumm von Bordwehr considers visits to
Diotima as a delightful change from his usual run of duty 346
76 Count Leinsdorf has his doubts 348
77 Arnheim as the darling of the press 351
78 Diotima's metamorphoses 355
79 Soliman in love 363
8o Getting to know General Stumm, who turns up unaccountably at the .Council 368
81 Count Leinsdorf's views of realpolitik. Ulrich fosters organizations 375
82 Clarisse calls for an Ulrich Year 381
83 Pseudoreality prevails; or, Why don't we make history up as we go along? 388
84 Assertion that ordinary life, too, is utopian 394
85 General Stumm tries to bring some order into the civilian mind 401
86 The industrial potentate and the merger of Soul with Business. Also, All roads to
the mind start from the soul, but none lead back again 413
87 Moosbrugger dances 426
88 On being involved with matters of consequence 432
89 one must move with the times 434
90 Dethroning the ideocracy 441
91 Speculations on the intellectual bull and bear market 445
92 Some of the rules governing the lives of the rich 455
93 Even through physical culture it is hard to get a hold on the civilian mind 458
94 Diotima's nights 460
95 The Great Man of Letters: rear view 465
96 The Great Man of Letters: front view 470
97 Clarisse's mysterious powers and missions 473
98 From a country that came to grief because of a defect in language 484
99 Of the middling intelligence and its fruitful counterpart, the halfWit; the resemblance between two eras; lovable Aunt Jane; and the disorder called Modern Times 493
100 General Stumm invades the State Library and learns about the world of books, the librarians guarding it, and intellectual order 500
101 Cousins in conflict 506
102 Love and war among the Fischels 520
103 The temptation 530
104 Rachel and Soliman on the warpath 540
105 Love on the highest level is no joke 546
106 Does modem man believe in God or in the Head of
the Worldwide Corporation? Arnheim wavering 551
107 count Leinsdorf achieves an unexpected political success 558
108 The unredeemed nationalities and General Stumm's
reflections about the terminology of redemption 564
109 Bonadea, Kakania; systems of happiness and balance 569
110 Moosbrugger dissolved and preserved 578
111 to the legal mind, insanity is an all-or-nothing proposition 583
112 Arnheim sets his father, Samuel, among the gods and
decides to get Ulrich into his power. Soliman wants 588
to find out more about his own royal father
113 Ulrich chats with Hans Sepp and Gerda in the jargon
of the frontier between the superrational and the sub rational 599
114 Things are coming to a boil. Arnheim is gracious to
General Stumm. Diotima prepares to move off into
infmity. Ulrich daydreams about living one's life as one reads a book 615
115 The tip of your breast is like a poppy leaf 628
116 The two Trees of Life and a proposal to establish a
General Secretariat for Precision and Soul 636
117 A dark day for Rachel 655
118 So kill him! 660
119 A countermine and a seduction 672
120 The Parallel Campaign causes a stir 681
121' Talking man-to-man 691
122 Going home 706
123 The turning point 713
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Man without qualities Tr. by Sophie Wilkins - London Picador Classic Publishing 2017 - xxi,1130p.
CONTENTS
PART I: A SORT OF INTRODUCTION
1 From which, remarkably enough, nothing develops
2 3 House and home of the man without qualities 6
3 Even a man without qualities has a father with
Qualities 8
4 If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a
sense of possibility 10
5 Ulrich 13
6 Leona, or a change in viewpoint 16
7 In a weak moment Ulrich acquires a new mistress 21
8 Kakania 26
9 The first of three attempts to become a great man 31
10 The second attempt. Notes toward a morality for the
man without qualities 33
11 The most important attempt of all 35
12 The lady whose love Ulrich won after a conversation
about sports and mysticism 38
13 A racehorse of genius crystallizes the recognition of
being a man without qualities 41
14 Boyhood friends 45
15 Cultural revolution 52
16 A mysterious malady of the times 54
17 Effect of a man without qualities on a man with
Qualities 58
18 Moosbrugger 67
19 A letter of admonition and a chance to acquire
qualities. Rivalzy of two accessions to the throne 77
PART II: PSEUDOREALITY PREVAILS
20. A touch of reality. In spite of the absence of qualities
Vlrich takes resolute and spirited action 83
21. the real invention of the Parallel Campaign by Count
Leinsdorf 87
22. The Parallel Campaign, in the form of an influential
ladY of ineffable spiritual grace, stands ready to
devour Ulrich 93
23. A great man's initial intervention 97
24 capital and culture. Diotima's friendship with Count
Leinsdorf, and the office of bringing distinguished
visitors into accord with the soul 100
25 sufferings of a married soul 106
26 The union of soul and economics. The man who can
accomplish this wants to enjoy the baroque charm of
old Austrian culture. And so an idea for the Parallel
campaign is born 110
27 Nature and substance of a great idea 113
28 A chapter that may be skipped by anyone not
particularly impressed by thinking as an occupation 115
29.Explanation and disruptions of a normal
state of awareness 118
30 Ulrich hears voices 122
31 Whose side are you on? 123
32.The forgotten, highly relevant story
of the major's wife 126
33 Breaking with Bonadea 132
34 A hot flash and chilled walls 134
35 Ballk Director Leo Fischel and the Principle of
Insufficient Cause 139
36 Thanks to the above-mentioned Principle the Parallel
carnpaign becomes a tangible reality before anyone
Imows what it is 141
37 By launching the slogan "Year of Austria," a journalist
makes a lot of trouble for Count Leinsdorf, who
issues a frantic call for Ulrich 145
38 Clarisse and her demons 150,
39 A man without qualities consists of qualities without 156
40 A man with all the qualities, but he is indifferent to them. A prince of intellect is arrested, and the and the Parallel Campaign gets its Honorary Secretary 159
41 Rachel and Diotima 172
42 The great session 177
43 Ulrich meets the great man for the first time. Nothing irrational happens in world history,
Leinsdorf, and the office of bringing distinguished but Diotima claims that the True Austria is the
whole world 184
44 Continuation and conclusion of the great session. Ulrich takes a liking to Rachel,
and Rachel to Soliman. The Parallel Campaign gets organized 189
45 Silent encounter of two mountain peaks 194
46 Ideals and morality are the best means for filling that . big hole called soul 198
47 What all others are separately, Arnheim is rolled into one 201
48 The three causes of Arnheim's fame and the Mystery awareness 203
49 Antagonism sprouts between the old and the new Diplomacy 208
50 Further developments. Section Chief Tuzzi decides to inform himself about Arnheim 213
51 The House of Fischel 217
52 Section ChiefTuzzi finds a blind spot in the workings of his ministry 233
53 Moosbrugger is moved to another prison 227
54 In conversation with Walter and Clarisse, Ulrich turns out to be reactionary 229
55 Soliman and Amheim 236
56 The Parallel Campaign committees seethe with activity. Clarisse writes to His Grace proposing a
Nietzsche Year 240
57 Great upsurge. Diotima discovers the strange ways of great ideas 244
58 Qualms about the Parallel Campaign. But in the
history of mankind there is no voluntary turning back 249
59 Moosbrugger reflects 253
6o Excursion into the realm of logic and morals 261
61 The ideal of the three treatises, or the utopia of exact living 263
62 The earth too, but especially Ulrich, pays homage to the utopia of essayism 267
63 Bonadea has a vision 278
64 General Stumm von Bordwehr visits Diotima 288
65 From the conversations between Arnheim and Diotima 290
66 All is not well between Ulrich and Arnheim 293
67 Diotima and Ulrich 298
68 A digression: Must people be in accord with their bodies? 306
69 Diotima and Ulrich, continued 309
70 Clarisse visits Ulrich to tell him a story 314
71 The committee to draft guidelines for His Majesty's
Seventieth Jubilee Celebration opens its first session 319
72 Science smiling into its beard, or a first full-dress encounter with Evil 325
73 Leo Fischel's daughter Gerda 332
74 The fourth century B.c. versus the year 1797. Ulrich receives• another letter from his father 341
75 General Stumm von Bordwehr considers visits to
Diotima as a delightful change from his usual run of duty 346
76 Count Leinsdorf has his doubts 348
77 Arnheim as the darling of the press 351
78 Diotima's metamorphoses 355
79 Soliman in love 363
8o Getting to know General Stumm, who turns up unaccountably at the .Council 368
81 Count Leinsdorf's views of realpolitik. Ulrich fosters organizations 375
82 Clarisse calls for an Ulrich Year 381
83 Pseudoreality prevails; or, Why don't we make history up as we go along? 388
84 Assertion that ordinary life, too, is utopian 394
85 General Stumm tries to bring some order into the civilian mind 401
86 The industrial potentate and the merger of Soul with Business. Also, All roads to
the mind start from the soul, but none lead back again 413
87 Moosbrugger dances 426
88 On being involved with matters of consequence 432
89 one must move with the times 434
90 Dethroning the ideocracy 441
91 Speculations on the intellectual bull and bear market 445
92 Some of the rules governing the lives of the rich 455
93 Even through physical culture it is hard to get a hold on the civilian mind 458
94 Diotima's nights 460
95 The Great Man of Letters: rear view 465
96 The Great Man of Letters: front view 470
97 Clarisse's mysterious powers and missions 473
98 From a country that came to grief because of a defect in language 484
99 Of the middling intelligence and its fruitful counterpart, the halfWit; the resemblance between two eras; lovable Aunt Jane; and the disorder called Modern Times 493
100 General Stumm invades the State Library and learns about the world of books, the librarians guarding it, and intellectual order 500
101 Cousins in conflict 506
102 Love and war among the Fischels 520
103 The temptation 530
104 Rachel and Soliman on the warpath 540
105 Love on the highest level is no joke 546
106 Does modem man believe in God or in the Head of
the Worldwide Corporation? Arnheim wavering 551
107 count Leinsdorf achieves an unexpected political success 558
108 The unredeemed nationalities and General Stumm's
reflections about the terminology of redemption 564
109 Bonadea, Kakania; systems of happiness and balance 569
110 Moosbrugger dissolved and preserved 578
111 to the legal mind, insanity is an all-or-nothing proposition 583
112 Arnheim sets his father, Samuel, among the gods and
decides to get Ulrich into his power. Soliman wants 588
to find out more about his own royal father
113 Ulrich chats with Hans Sepp and Gerda in the jargon
of the frontier between the superrational and the sub rational 599
114 Things are coming to a boil. Arnheim is gracious to
General Stumm. Diotima prepares to move off into
infmity. Ulrich daydreams about living one's life as one reads a book 615
115 The tip of your breast is like a poppy leaf 628
116 The two Trees of Life and a proposal to establish a
General Secretariat for Precision and Soul 636
117 A dark day for Rachel 655
118 So kill him! 660
119 A countermine and a seduction 672
120 The Parallel Campaign causes a stir 681
121' Talking man-to-man 691
122 Going home 706
123 The turning point 713
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