Born into an affluent Austrian family in 1880, Robert Musil died penniless 62 years later, a solitary, bitter man who felt his genius had gone unrecognized. Certainly Musil's name is not nearly as well known as those of his contemporaries Marcel Proust, J

Translated from the Polish, the third volume of a literary masterpiece explicates the writer's struggle with freedom and self-consciousness, his ideas about himself and the world around him, and his thoughts on other works of world literature. Simultaneou