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Tytuł:
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The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil.
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Autorzy:
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Carrigan, Henry L., Jr.
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Źródło:
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Salem Press Encyclopedia of Literature, 2022. 3p.
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In August, 1913—just one year before the assassination of Austrian archduke Francis Ferdinand, which prompts the beginning of World War I—thirty-two-year-old Ulrich, exhausted by the seeming meaningless that underlies most of his life, chooses to take a yearlong sabbatical from his everyday life. He wants to search for the emotional intensity and spiritual depth that he knows must lie beneath the quotidian. As a mathematician, he has sought much of the order of life in rigorous formulas that defy easy reduction to the vagaries of spirituality and mysticism.
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