Man Without Qualities, Volume 2 History Title: Childhood of Jesus

Title: Childhood of Jesus

" an ark filled with women in its stables

Or a useless (almost) single piece

--Colum McCann

As he follows his stepson's ghost - and becomes enmeshed in the same demonic conspiracies that claimed the boy - Dostoevsky emerges as a figure of unfathomable contradictions: naive and calculating

Man Without Qualities, Volume 2 History Title: Childhood of JesusTitle: Man Without Qualities, Volume 2 Author: Robert Musil ISBN: 9780679768029 Publisher: Vintage Published: 1996 Binding: Paperback Language: English Edition: Reprint Number of Pages: 1056 Condition Note: New from the publisher Publisher Description: " Musil belongs in the company of Joyce, Proust, Kafka, and Svevo. . . . (This translation) is a literay and intellectual event of singular importance." New Republic.