![]() Yes, The Man Without Qualities is a novel of ideas – it is so thick with ideas that it is hard to choose among possible quotes.Īnd since the possession of qualities assumes a certain pleasure in their reality, we can see how a man who cannot summon up a sense of reality even in relation to himself may suddenly, one day, come to see himself as a man without qualities. ![]() ![]() I've never felt so filthy helpless! When you spend a lot of time with ideas you end up itching all over, and you can scratch till you bleed, without getting any relief. And together these particolored tiles constitute a variegated mosaic of a brilliant farce which shows a wholeness of a complete book.īut do you know what it's like? It's like traveling second class in Galicia and picking up crab lice. And every chapter reads as a vivid fable or an acrid anecdote. ![]() The first volume of The Man Without Qualities comprises two parts: A Sort of Introduction and Pseudoreality Prevails and those consist of one hundred and twenty three short chapters. ![]()
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