没有个性的人I 英文原版 The Man Without Qualities, Vol. 1

Author: Robert Musil

Paperback: 750 pages

Publisher: VINTAGE

Publication：09 Dec 1996

Language: English

ISBN10 0679767878

ISBN13 9780679767879

Product Dimensions: 132 x 204 x 35mm | 553g

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

本书是一部未完成的现代主义小说，共分三卷，草稿多次，作者是奥地利已故作家罗伯特·穆西尔。它通常被认为是二十世纪欧洲*重要的小说之一。这部小说是一个“思想的故事”，发生在奥匈帝国的*后日子，情节经常转向讽喻剖析广泛存在主义主题的人性和情感。它特别关注真理和观点的价值，以及社会如何组织有关生活和社会的观念，尽管整本书超过一千页，因此没有一个单一的主题占主导地位。*一本书名为《入门》，是对主人公的介绍，主人公是一位32岁的数学家乌尔里希，他在寻找生活和现实的感觉，但未能找到。他对道德的矛盾和对生活的冷漠，使他成为一个“没有个性的人”，依靠外部世界形成他的性格。一种敏锐的分析性的被动是他典型的态度。

The Man Without Qualities (German: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften; 1930–1943) is an unfinished modernist novel in three volumes and various drafts, by the late Austrian writer Robert Musil. It is typically considered to be one of the most significant European novels of the twentieth century. The novel is a "story of ideas", which takes place in the time of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy's last days, and the plot often veers into allegorical dissections on a wide range of existential themes concerning humanity and feelings. It has a particular concern with the values of truth and opinion and how society organizes ideas about life and society, though the book is well over a thousand pages long in its entirety, and so no one single theme dominates.The first book, entitled A Sort of Introduction, is an introduction to the protagonist, a 32-year-old mathematician named Ulrich who is in search of a sense of life and reality but fails to find it. His ambivalence towards morals and indifference to life has brought him to the state of being "a man without qualities", depending on the outer world to form his character. A kind of keenly analytical passivity is his most typical attitude.

穆西尔说，描述乌尔里希的主要特征并不特别困难。乌尔里希自己只知道，他对自己所有的品质都出奇地漠不关心。作为一种普遍的生活态度，他的主要特点是缺乏深刻的本质和模棱两可。

Musil said that it was not particularly difficult to describe Ulrich in his main features. Ulrich himself only knows he is strangely indifferent to all his qualities. Lack of any profound essence and ambiguity as a general attitude to life are his principal characteristics.

与此同时，我们遇到了一个杀人犯和*奸犯，Moosbrugger，那个被判他谋杀了一个妓女。其他主角是乌尔里希的情妇波纳迪娅和他的朋友沃尔特神经质的妻子克拉丽丝，她拒绝接受平凡的生活导致了沃尔特的精神错乱。

Meanwhile, we meet a murderer and rapist, Moosbrugger, who is condemned for his murder of a prostitute. Other protagonists are Ulrich's mistress, Bonadea,[1] and Clarisse, his friend Walter's neurotic wife, whose refusal to go along with commonplace existence leads to Walter's insanity.

在*二本书中，伪现实主义盛行，乌尔里希加入了所谓的“平行运动”，疯狂地准备庆祝奥地利皇帝弗朗茨·约瑟夫统治70周年。同年，也就是1918年，德国皇帝威廉二世将统治他的国家长达30年。这一巧合激起了奥地利爱国主义者的愤怒，他们通过一场盛宴来展示奥地利在政治、文化和哲学上的至高无上地位，这一盛宴将永远吸引奥地利皇帝的臣民和全世界人民的心。

In the second book, Pseudoreality Prevails, Ulrich joins the so-called "Collateral Campaign" or "Parallel Campaign", frantic preparations for a celebration in honor of 70 years of the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph's reign. That same year, 1918, the German Emperor Wilhelm II would be ruler of his country for 30 years. This coincidence stirs the Austrian patriots into a fury of action to demonstrate Austria's political, cultural, and philosophical supremacy via a feast which will capture the minds of the Austrian Emperor's subjects and people of the world forever. On that account, many bright ideas and visions are discussed (e.g., The Austrian Year 1918, The World Year 1918, The Austrian Peace Year 1918 or The Austrian World Peace Year 1918).

一些人加入了组织团队或者引起了乌尔里希的注意。Ermelinda Tuzzi，又名Diotima，是一位公务员的妻子，她试图成为维也纳哲学的缪斯女神，激励着走过她道路的人;她奇迹般地同时吸引了乌尔里希和阿恩海姆。阿恩海姆是一位普鲁士商业巨头，也是一位性格以沃尔特·拉特诺为原型的散文家。负责这场竞选的贵族是老保守派的莱因斯多夫伯爵，他无法做出决定，甚至无法不做决定。帝国和皇家军队的将军Stumm von Bordwehr，因为他试图在通常神秘的氛围中使事情系统化而不受欢迎，德国商人Paul Arnheim是Diotima的美丽和精神的结合的崇拜者，但并不觉得有必要娶她。

A couple of people take part in the organization team or catch the eye of Ulrich. Ermelinda Tuzzi, called Diotima,[2] is Ulrich's cousin as well as the wife of a civil servant; she tries to become a Viennese muse of philosophy, inspiring whoever crosses her path; she miraculously attracts both Ulrich and Arnheim, a Prussian business magnate and prosaic writer whose character is based on the figure of Walter Rathenau. The nobleman in charge of the Campaign, the old conservative Count Leinsdorf, is incapable of deciding or even of not-deciding. General Stumm von Bordwehr of the Imperial and Royal Army, is unpopular for his attempts in this generally mystical atmosphere to make things systematic and German businessman Paul Arnheim is an admirer of Diotima's combination of beauty and spirit, without feeling the need to marry her.

虽然大多数的参与者(狄奥提玛狂热地)试图把弗朗茨·约瑟夫·我的统治与模糊的人类的思想,进步,传统,和幸福,现实政治的追随者看到机会利用情况：作声响冯Bordwehr希望得到奥地利军队收入提高和Arnheim计划购买油田在奥地利的一个东部省份。讽刺的是，原本计划庆祝和平和帝国凝聚力的活动，结果却变成了通往战争、帝国崩溃和民族沙文主义的道路。

While most of the participants (Diotima most feverishly) try to associate the reign of Franz Joseph I with vague ideas of humanity, progress, tradition, and happiness, the followers of Realpolitik see a chance to exploit the situation: Stumm von Bordwehr wishes to get the Austrian army income raised and Arnheim plans to buy oil fields in an eastern province of Austria. Musil's great irony and satire is that what was planned as a celebration of peace and imperial cohesion in fact turns out as a path toward war, imperial collapse, and national chauvinism.

罗伯特•穆西尔(Robert Musil) 1880年出生于奥地利，曾就读于维也纳军事学院，并在捷克斯洛伐克的布尔诺(Brno)获得工程学位，之后在柏林攻读心理学和哲学博士学位，并开始写作。1911年，他与玛莎·马科瓦尔迪(Martha Marcovaldi)结婚。他参加了一战，在布拉格和弗朗茨·卡夫卡成了朋友。战后，穆西尔在维也纳和柏林重新开始了文学生涯，期间他获得了诺贝尔奖提名。他写过《五个女人》、《一个在世作家的遗作》和《年轻的托利斯的困惑》。他的作品被纳粹禁止，他和他的犹太妻子在二战期间在海外流离失所。他于1942年死于中风。20世纪50年代，Musil的作品开始重新出现，他未完成的《没有个性的人》被普遍认为是现代主义重要的小说之一。

Robert Musil was born in 1880 in Austria and studied at the military college in Vienna and undertook an engineering degree in Brno, Czechoslovakia, before turning to psychology and philosophy doctoral studies in Berlin, where he began to write. He married Martha Marcovaldi in 1911. He fought in World War I, where he befriended Franz Kafka in Prague. Following the war, Musil returned to a literary career in Vienna and Berlin, during which time he was nominated for the Nobel Prize. He was the author of Five Women, The Posthumous Papers of a Living Author, and The Confusions of Young Torless. His works were banned by the Nazis, and he and his Jewish wife went into exile during World War II. He died of a stroke in 1942. Musil's works began to reappear in the 1950s, and his unfinished The Man Without Qualities is generally considered to be one of the most important modernist novels.