Eithne Wilkins Bücher

Contains: A Sort of Introduction The Like of it Now Happens (I)"It would be useless to attempt a synopsis of Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften, not only because of its length and complexity, but also because the real action lies not on the surface, in what the characters do (though that is often dramatic enough), but within, in their states of mind, the fluctuations of their emotions, their theories, and the counterpoint between the thoughts and the behaviour of them all, in themselves and in relation to each other, especially to the Man without Qualities himself, who is the nucleus, and in relation to the demands of the indefinable pattern of this world we live in."(From the Foreword by the translators)

„Musils Buch besitzt die hinreißendsten Romaneigenschaften: Anschaulichkeit noch in der unsinnlichsten Reflexion, Heiterkeit bis zu tanzendem Übermut, gründlichen Humor, der kaum an ein oder zwei Stellen geringere Humoristika passieren läßt, und vor allem einen Reichtum und Witz des Vergleichs und der Bilder, wie er in der deutschen Literatur, mindestens seit Gottfried Keller, nicht seinesgleichen hat.“