Robert Musil

For the American journalist and lyricist, see Robert Musel.

Robert Musil
Born(1880-11-06)6 November 1880
Klagenfurt, Austria-Hungary
Died15 April 1942(1942-04-15) (aged 61)
Geneva, Switzerland
OccupationNovelist, short story writer, playwright
Alma materGerman Technical University in Brünn/Brno
University of Berlin
Period1905–1942
Literary movementModernism
Notable worksThe Confusions of Young Törless
The Man Without Qualities
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Robert Musil (Austrian German: [ˈroːbɛrt ˈmuːzɪl]; 6 November 1880 – 15 April 1942) was an Austrian philosophical writer. His unfinished novel, The Man Without Qualities (German: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften), is generally considered to be one of the most important and influential modernist novels.

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