Has anyone read pic related? If so what do you think?

>>9113651
I heard the translation is shit so I haven't read it

>>9113651
I've read it, liked it and also found it to be a chore. It's a novel filled with ideas, with a lot of beautiful passages and also a lot philosphical digressions. Sometimes there's just a few pages of philosphical rambling by the MC and it turns out that he's just trying to annoy someone and not say anything useful.
If you're not sure if you want to read it, read Sorrow of Young Werther first and see if you like his style.

It's on deck to read once I finish The Magic Mountain this weekend. Thought it might be a good segway from Mann -- sorta picks up where the story of Hans Castrop left off.

On a side note -- the magic mountain has exceeded my expectations. I was on the fence -- then I read "Snow"...

Very wearying novel of ideas. Reading it felt like war and peace without the battle scenes and historical digressions, but with the same amount of cuckoldry. Nothing ever happens. 200 pages could go by and I'd only understand them on the 201st. Highly compelling.

>>9113651
masterpiece

^ yup, a masterpiece – and a great comedy, too.

Read Vol 1 and 2 and it's overbloated trash. The "ideas" are two-bit, spouted off by cardboard cutouts for characters with no context or development and the prose is autism incarnate. I need to finish it off sometime.

I read both translations but didn't enjoy the prose, ideas, or characters

>>9114680
Which was better? I heard the earlier translation is better

>>9113731
>read Sorrow of Young Werther and see if you like ""HIS"" style
Werther is by Goethe, not Musil.

>>9114810
Sorry my brain fucked up
Replace Sorrows with Confusions and Werther with Törless

This board might actually be too dumb for Musil.

>>9113651
Skip this pseudo philosophical garbage and read Broch instead.

>>9115051
This...

>not joining the worlds most exclusive literary club having read musil, Ulysses and the complete Proust.