Although he is eager for influence & worldly success, his self-awareness sets him apart from those around him. At the heart of this astonishing novel is Ulrich: youngish, rich, an ex-soldier, a seducer, a scientist: "the man w/o qualities".
Dazzlingly written, ferocious, suffused w/ high, ironic intelligence, it uses Viennese high society on the eve of World War I to chronicle the decay & collapse of the Old World & w/ utter prescience to explore all that would follow in our Age of Anxiety. * ABOUT THE WORK: This long-awaited translation, the first in English to provide the complete text, gives to its readers the greatest masterpiece in all 20th-century German literature, w/ Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past" & Joyce's "Ulysses" this is one of the three literary masterworks of modernism. April 30,1995) First printing: NEW, PRISTINE, UNTOUCHED: Two-Volume hardcover set in EXCELLENT slipcase, NEW mylar-protected jackets w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exteriors, NEW covers w/ black-linen wrapping spines & extending 1.25" onto front & back panels covered in black paper & w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMPECCABLE cream-white end-papers, NEW sewn bindings w/ tight signatures, PRISTINE interiors superbly printed in Caledonia on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * Volume I: 5.62" x 8.62" x 1.75", 0.92 kg, pp. METACLASSIC: SUPERB: RARE First edition (Orig.
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