Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften by Robert Musil

Published 2013 · 1,041 pages · 286,275 words · about 19 hours at an average pace

How hard is Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften to read?

Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften scores 50 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.

Where the story of Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften takes place

  • Vienna (Austria-Hungary), 1913–1914 (1913 to 1914), the main setting

About the author

Robert Musil