Robert Musil

Austrian philosophical writer (1880–1942)

Robert Mathias Musil (Austrian German: [ˈroːbɛrt ˈmuːzɪl]; 6 November 1880 – 15 April 1942) was an Austrian philosophical writer of novels, short stories and plays. 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. Musil published his first novel, The Confusions of Young Törless (German: Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß), in 1906.

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