A person without attributes. Book 1

In literature, the name of the Austrian Robert Musil (1880-1942) stands in the same row with the names of the Frenchman Marcel Proust, the Irishman James Joyce, the American William Faulkner and other such peaks of world classics and prose innovators. The novel "A Man Without Properties", which the author wrote all his life and which has now been translated into more than thirty languages ​​of the world, gives a broad panorama of the life of Austria and all of Europe on the eve of the First World War, paints a picture - often grotesque and satirical - of social disappointments and moral searches in those times realities