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Finished this. What’s next? What can even come close to this?

>> No.12927125

Zeno's Conscience is kind of a spiritual sequel or whatever.

>> No.12927136

>>12927115
I have been reading this for literally years because I don't want the emptynes that will come when I finish it.

>> No.12927329

Is that translation good?

>> No.12927331

>>12927115
no one ever talks about torless.....

>> No.12927334

>>12927115
> What can even come close to this?
Greatness is subjective.
If 'The Man Without Qualities' ever become popular, I'm sure it will get 3.80 to 3.90 in Goodreads.
Just like what happened to 'Macbeth' and 'Paradise Lost'.
That's because most people can't (or don't want to) comprehend the bigger ideas.

>What’s next?
Stranger in a Strange Land

>> No.12927454

>>12927331
Pretty obvious why.

Op, you should definitely look into Insatiability by Witkiewicz.

>> No.12927490

I FUCKING HATE BEING AN ANGLO AND NEVER HEARING OF GREAT MODERNIST EUROPEAN WRITERS. I THOUGHT I DUG DEEP ENOUGH WHEN I FOUND PESSOA. REEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>> No.12927547

>>12927115
Im near the end of Vol 2, gonna be q weird feeling when I finally finish, did you read the posthumous stuff as well?

>> No.12927580

>>12927490
>Pessoa and Musil
>Digging
Are you even trying ?

>> No.12927586

>>12927580
Who would you reccomend desu?

>> No.12927660

>>12927125
Svevo is good no doubt — but I feel like musil is on another level.

>> No.12927667

>>12927115
I’ll recommend Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann. That’s the track I took and it was a good fit.

>> No.12927961

I'm going to suggest In Search of Lost Time since it sounds kind of similar. Would The Man Without Qualities be a good idea for my summer backlog?

>> No.12928054

The Sleepwalkers by Hermann Broch, another fellow Austrian

>> No.12928079

Oh and also if you want a work coming from a sort of related angle (modernist account set against a backdrop of declining European empire with an emphasis on dialectical oppositions, particularly the whole mystic-spiritual vs rational-mechanical type stuff) , try Petersburg by Andrei Bely.

>> No.12928122

>>12927547
Yes,I didn’t the read the version I posted in the OP because I’m not anglo though. Still my copy had the posthumous pages and it ended with Journey to Paradise, which was beautiful honestly.
>>12927667
already read that and Dr Faustus
>>12927125
was thinking on giving this a try but I don’t know much about it

>> No.12928158

>>12928122
I've got the version you posted, got a Rilke book translated by the same guy (Pike) as well, he seems pretty good. I'll read the posthumous stuff since you say it's good but I'll definitely wait a while so I appreciate it without tiring of Musil's style

>> No.12928171

>>12928122
Oops, thought you were OP, apologies lol

>> No.12929023

>>12927490
rofl @ casual fuck. try more.