After the main character gets his home in order, he proceeds to go a courting, and meets woman who is described as "curvaceously slender and provocatively lifeless," named Leona.
After the main character gets his home in order, he proceeds to go a courting, and meets woman who is described as "curvaceously slender and provocatively lifeless," named Leona. In one scene Clarisse advocates for a Nietzsche Year, if indeed the concept of an Austrian Year is just ridiculous, and the main character claims that the second answer as to why Diotima's campaign was so senseless because humanity was as capable of cannibalism as it was the Critique of Pure Reason. That scene occurs in Part II entitled "Pseudoreality Prevails" in this novel with its setting being the decaying days of fin-de-siecle Austria on the eve of World War I. For 10 points, give this 1,700-page novel that details some of the affairs of Ulrich the man of the title condition written by Robert Musil.
After the main character gets his home in order, he proceeds to go a courting, and meets woman who is described as "curvaceously slender and provocatively lifeless," named Leona.
The Man Without Qualities [or Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften]