Freshly translated by Joel Agee for enhanced readability and poetic precision
Explores themes of identity, sexuality, and spirituality in a modernist context
Focuses on the brother-sister dynamic for a unique narrative perspective
Short, impactful 350-page length for accessible reading
Shortlisted for the 2020 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize
Summarized by Shop
Agathe is the sister of Ulrich, the restless and elusive “man without qualities” at the center of Robert Musil’s great, unfinished novel of the same name. For years Agathe and Ulrich have ignored each other, but when brother and sister find themselves reunited over the bier of their dead father, they are electrified. Each is the other’s s
