Maybe I did think about math and just forgot. Well, once again I have to say that I didn't think much about math while reading this, but I was young. The play received terrible reviews, but I thought it was OK. There was a play based on The Man Without Qualities that toured England in the late 1970's or early 80's that I also saw. Apparently a relatively new translation is available (making three, perhaps?).
I'll have to figure out which translation it was (I read it in about 1980).
I read a Picador publication of it, if I remember correctly. Ex.: Those who know German will chafe at reading "Seinesgleiches geschieht" translated as "Psuedoreality Prevails" the old translators, Eithne Wilkins and Ernst Kaiser, much more reasonably rendered it as "The like of it now happens," which preserves the intended ambiguity. The one mentioned here is the newer, and by far the inferior. Logic leading to philosophy and morality." The author,Īustrian Robert Musil, studied mathematics and philosophy in college. The hero of this landmark of Modernism is a mathematician, but as the title suggests, it is difficult to say anything else about him. (click on names to see more mathematical fiction 1: A Sort of Introduction and Pseudo Reality Prevails (1930) Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.A list compiled by Alex Kasman ( College of Charleston) This new translation-published in two elegant volumes-is the first to present Musil' s complete text, including material that remained unpublished during his lifetime. Set in Vienna on the eve of World War I, this great novel of ideas tells the story of Ulrich, ex-soldier and scientist, seducer and skeptic, who finds himself drafted into the grandiose plans for the 70th jubilee of the Emperor Franz Josef. This new translation-published in two elegant volumes-is the first to present Musil's complete text, including material that remained unpublished during his lifetime.
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