A Very Low Birth Rate in Kakania

Nicholas Spice

  • The Man without Qualities by Robert Musil, translated by Sophie Wilkins and Burton Pike
    Picador, 1774 pp, £40.00, November 1995, ISBN 0 330 34682 2
  • The Man without Qualities by Robert Musil, translated by Sophie Wilkins
    Picador, 1130 pp, £15.00, October 1997, ISBN 0 330 34942 2

There is only one baby in The Man without Qualities. Her mother is Rachel, maid to Ermelinda Tuzzi who is the wife of Section Chief Tuzzi, a bureaucrat in the service of the Imperial Austrian Government in Vienna. The year is 1913:

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