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Edler Robert von Musil ( or ; November 6, 1880 – April 15, 1942) was a writer. His unfinished long novel The Man Without Qualities (Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften) is generally considered to be one of the most important modernist novels. However, this novel has not been so widely read because of its delayed publication and also because of the lengthy and intricate plot that foresaw the impending disaster in Europe after the World War I.