TY - GEN AU - Musil, Robert TI - Man without qualities Tr. by Sophie Wilkins SN - 9781447289432 U1 - 833 PY - 2017/// CY - London PB - Picador Classic Publishing KW - N1 - 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 ER -