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Radio 3,1 min

Robert Musil’s 'The Man Without Qualities' discussed on Free Thinking

Free Thinking

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William Boyd, Margaret Drabble, Andrew Webber and Philipp Blom discuss Robert Musil’s 'The Man Without Qualities', one of the first comprehensive accounts of a truly modern sensibility which examines a world perched on the brink of catastrophe - about to fall headlong into the turmoil and anguish of the Great War. Free Thinking 8th January 2014.

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