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The Man Without Qualities<\/em> – Synopsis and Characters
\nCopyright 2024 by Bob Jones. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n

Volume 1<\/p>\n

Part I – A Sort of Introduction<\/p>\n

1. Today\u2019s weather. The city. Two people (not Ermelinda Tuzzi and Arnheim) on an evening stroll come across a traffic accident.
\n2. A city street, a man gazing at it through the window of his house, timing the activity with a stopwatch. The energy of amassed human movement, or just one man. No matter what you do, it doesn\u2019t make the slightest difference.
\n3. The man buys a ch\u00e2teau and asks his father for money for repairs. His father objects.
\n4. The sense of the real and the sense of the possible: possibilists, idealists, realists. The sense of possible reality, and of real possibilities. How one becomes a man without qualities.
\n5. Ulrich. Ulrich\u2019s childhood essay. Ulrich puts his house in order.
\n6. Ulrich courts the gluttonous Leonora, a chanteuse.
\n7. Ulrich is set upon and beaten by three louts, then is rescued by a woman, Bonadea, who takes him home in her cab. She immediately becomes his lover.
\n8. The super-American city. How a city really is. The vanished Kakania. Kaiserlich, k\u00f6niglich. The nine characters of a country\u2019s inhabitants. Why Kakania was brought to ruin.
\n9. Ulrich attempts to become a great man by becoming a military officer, but oversteps his bounds.
\n10. Ulrich\u2019s second attempt, as a civil engineer, ends in disillusionment.
\n11. The transformational qualities of mathematics. The dangers of mathematics. Why Ulrich took it up.
\n12. Bonadea\u2019s one fault and her justification for it.
\n13. Genius and racehorses. Ulrich takes a year off to seek an appropriate application for his abilities.
\n14. Ulrich visits his childhood friends, Walter and Clarisse. Nietzsche. Wagner. Walter\u2019s many undeveloped gifts, and Clarisse\u2019s response.
\n15. Austria in the 19th century: technically clever, but otherwise stagnant. Late on, men of action join men of intellect\u2014an invigorating fever (for a while).
\n16. Ulrich and Walter\u2019s youthful conversations. Ulrich feels a lull, a running down. Something is missing in everything. The advantages of stupidity over truth. Ulrich feels he was born with a talent for which there is at present no objective.
\n17. A portrait of Walter, a man with many qualities. He identifies Ulrich as a man without qualities. Clarisse see things Ulrich\u2019s way.
\n18. Moosbrugger, the sex murderer, and his crime.
\n19. A letter from Ulrich\u2019s father. Ulrich is recommended to Count Stallburg in regard to upcoming jubilees. Mention of Ulrich\u2019s cousin, who is involved in the jubilees, and of his sister.<\/p>\n

Part II – Pseudoreality Prevails<\/p>\n

20. Ulrich visits Count Stallburg. It was simply amazingly real.
\n21. The Parallel Campaign and its creator, Imperial Liege-Count Leinsdorf.
\n22. Ulrich and his cousin Diotima meet and size each other up. Her husband, Section Chief Tuzzi. Ulrich is impressed by the little maid, Rachel.
\n23. Arnheim arrives and visits Diotima. Diotima\u2019s rise in social station, along with Tuzzi\u2019s rise professionally.
\n24. Count Leinsdorf\u2019s religious and civic duties. Diotima\u2019s salon.
\n25. The uncertain nature of Diotima\u2019s soul. How Tuzzi defined their marriage. Diotima jumps into the great patriotic campaign but the water is shallow.
\n26. Arnheim\u2019s servant, Soliman, an African prince. Or not. Is Arnheim Jewish? His fame. Its affect on Diotima. How to direct the Campaign.
\n27. The body and soul of a great idea. Arnheim should direct the Campaign, but a spot should be saved for Ulrich.
\n28. Thinking, and how evidence of it recedes.
\n29. Bonadea is upset with Ulrich. While waiting for her to dress and leave, Ulrich intends to visit Walter and Clarisse. He has yet another idea. Walter\u2019s jealousy, again.
\n30. Ulrich recalls Moosbrugger\u2019s examination in court.
\n31. Bonadea attempts a reconciliation but is rebuffed by Ulrich\u2019s difficult question.
\n32. The allure of Moosbrugger. Ulrich and the major\u2019s wife.
\n33. Ulrich has grown tired of Bonadea. It\u2019s over. She leaves his house, with regrets.
\n34. The reality we build our lives around and the actual reality. Ulrich sends a note to Walter and Clarisse and sets off to see them.
\n35. Ulrich meets Bank Director Fischel. Fischel\u2019s oversight. \u201cThe true.\u201d The Principle of Insufficient Cause.
\n36. The value of the Parallel Campaign is weighed at high levels.
\n37. A journalist\u2019s article on the \u201cYear of Austria\u201d gets matters out of hand and Count Leinsdorf calls for Ulrich. Secret points that save the world.
\n38. Walter\u2019s note arrives. Clarisse and Walter at the piano. Clarisse gets distracted by Moosbrugger. Ulrich gave her Nietzsche\u2019s works as a wedding present. Walter, still jealous.
\n39. Experiences, personal and impersonal, and a world of experiences without a man.
\n40. Ulrich ruminates on mind: his mind, mind itself. The two Ulrichs. Still on his way to visit Walter and Clarisse, Ulrich is arrested, then let go by the grace of His Grace and made the Honorary Secretary of the campaign.
\n41. Rachel\u2019s history\u2014her veneration of Diotima\u2014she sets the table for the first meeting of the campaign committee.
\n42. General Stumm von Bordwehr, who was not invited, is welcomed. Arnheim, who was invited, causes a stir. Count Leinsdorf sets the tone. The sense of the Austro-Hungarian state. Diotima\u2019s call to define a great aim earns the barest response.
\n43. Ulrich and Arnheim converse. Count Leinsdorf is not keen on Arnheim\u2019s presence\u2014Diotima tries another tack. Pepi and Hans. Moosbrugger. Ulrich cannot stand Arnheim, but is quite taken by Rachel.
\n44. What Ulrich likes about Rachel. Diotima takes command. Committees, and more committees. General Stumm speaks of peaceful power. Rachel meets Soliman. A resolution is passed.
\n45. Arnheim and Diotima are alone. The soul. Have they each at long last found love?
\n46. Attaining the highest pitch of the soul. Arnheim\u2019s sculptures and the gardener\u2019s assistant.
\n47. Arnheim: the man with every quality. Even His Grace finds him interesting.
\n48. Arnheim (cont\u2019d): the sources of his renown, the universal man. The Mystery of the Whole.
\n49. Section Chief Tuzzi interviews Arnheim and Diotima about the goings on in his house.
\n50. Arnheim\u2019s air of authority is upset by Diotima and the Parallel Campaign. Tuzzi is puzzled by Arnheim\u2019s frequent meetings with Diotima and their affect on her. He vows to find out more about this disturbing person.
\n51. Fischel is shut out of life by his wife, his daughter, his job, and the Parallel Campaign.
\n52. Tuzzi discovers there is no official file on Arnheim. One is opened, but no one knows what to put in it.
\n53. While being moved to another prison, Moosbrugger considers the peace that being executed will give him.
\n54. Ulrich visits Walter and Clarisse. Ulrich and Walter debate the passion for rationality v. the simple intellect. Walter\u2019s jealousy reaches new heights.
\n55. Rachel becomes an admirer of Moosbrugger, but is more intrigued by Ulrich\u2019s attentions. Soliman\u2019s story.
\n56. Ulrich is seeing His Grace regularly. The Parallel Campaign\u2019s committees and memos. The Kakania filing system. Clarisse\u2019s letter to His Grace.
\n57. The Parallel Campaign brings new happiness to Diotima. Her mind is on finding a great idea, but His Grace wants to know what she will do with it.
\n58. The Parallel Campaign has society squabbling. The two folders.
\n59. Moosbrugger settles into the state\u2019s care. His rights. His thoughts never have enough words. Voices. Tree kittens and sweet rose lips.
\n60. Moosbrugger\u2019s mind, on the edge of responsibility and unaccountability. The needs thereof of the judicial system.
\n61. Why Moosbrugger will be executed. A precise life in three treatises. Utopia. The Utopia of precision.
\n62. Two kinds of outlook. Uncertainty. Living hypothetically, Ulrich sees life as an essay. Truth and subjectivity. The only question worth thinking about. A dark outline.
\n63. Bonadea comes to call on Ulrich. She wants to meet Diotima, but Ulrich says it is not yet possible. She makes a pass at Ulrich. She brings up Moosbrugger. Ulrich nonetheless holds her off.
\n64. General Stumm visits Diotima and proposes military power as a demonstration of peace. She accelerates her plan to come up with the Idea.
\n65. Arnheim visits Diotima and speaks of business, poetry, and money. Of his father, who is the opposite of Ulrich. Arnheim advises her realize the plan quickly. They touch.
\n66. A portfolio of things not to do, and one of things to do. Arnheim challenges Ulrich to a conversation. Ulrich advises Diotima regarding General Stumm.
\n67. Ulrich and Diotima, travelling around Kakania to gather ideas for the Campaign, establish a peculiar relationship, with Arnheim in the middle.
\n68. Ulrich\u2019s grazing Diotima\u2019s body in the car while on their trips leads him to ponder the relation of the body to the person who carries it.
\n69. Ulrich is seen through the wrong end of the telescope. Diotima reviews with him her conversation with Arnheim. Turning dreams into realties. Ulrich\u2019s tender side.
\n70. Clarisse asks Ulrich to help her father with a problem he has.
\n71. Diotima convenes a great assembly she cannot control, the thinking of whose great minds she can not quite grasp.
\n72. The origin, expression, and effect of the scientific mind. Bohemian and Bavarian beer.
\n73. Ulrich visits Fischel\u2019s daughter, Gerda, at the request of her mother, Clementine, to counter the influence of her friend, Hans Sepp. Ulrich makes an intimate advance to Gerda, to which she does not object. The story of the Moon.
\n74. Ulrich receives a letter from his father asking for a favor based on his son\u2019s influence in his new circle.
\n75. General Stumm visits Diotima. A misplaced sense of order is why the military exists. Diotima looks for a flash of lightning.
\n76. Diotima doubts Count Leinsdorf\u2019s interest in the parallel Campaign. Arnheim is wary of Ulrich\u2019s influence on the Count.
\n77. Newspapers as warehouses of ideas. The attributes of great men. Arnheim\u2019s news value. His pessimism.
\n78. Arnheim\u2019s mere proximity makes Diotima come alive in the pursuit of ideals with the power of love. Tuzzi is bewildered by it all.
\n79. Rachel spies on the campaign. Soliman acts out his designs on her.
\n80. General Stumm is invited by (whom?) to the Campaign conferences. The story of his career. His infatuation with Diotima. His remembrance of Ulrich.
\n81. Count Leinsdorf and realpolitik. Ulrich encounters odd organizations making odd requests, which Count Leinsdorf encourages.
\n82. Ulrich visits Clarisse and admonishes her for her letter to Count Leinsdorf. She proposes an Ulrich year. Turning ideas into reality. Walter\u2019s jealousy explained. Clarisse suggests Walter kill Ulrich. Letting things happen.
\n83. Ulrich thinks about the role of high-flown thoughts, about the morass of history, and why Diotima\u2019s patriotic campaign is senseless. Fischel opines.
\n84. Ulrich visits Walter and Clarisse. Ulrich and Walter discuss living a life of ideas and a life of reality. Clarisse takes Ulrich\u2019s side and Walter gets hurt once again.
\n85. General Stumm visits Ulrich. The interplay of ideas as a battle plan. Stumm\u2019s infatuation with Diotima.
\n86. All about Arnheim. The source of ideas. Arnheim in love. His childhood and development. Love\u2019s effect on him. The poem of life. Businessmen as rulers. His writings. Back to Diotima.
\n87. Moosbrugger, caught between the body that betrays him and the mind that finds the peace of God.
\n88. The hazard that great things and great ideas empty out the mind.
\n89. Arnheim is amused by young debaters at Diotima\u2019s. They perplex the General. Heine. The General\u2019s dog.
\n90. Thoughts come from the surface of things. Life teaches us with ease what reason labors to achieve.
\n91. Tuzzi, beside Ulrich, muses over the goings on in his house. Ulrich philosophizes, but Tuzzi disdains. Ulrich is astonished that Tuzzi cannot understand what attracts Arnheim to his house.
\n92. The personal quality of riches. Demands on the rich. Socialism and the need for money.
\n93. Ulrich and General Stumm listen to young philosophers arguing over genius in science and intuition in tennis. They cannot decide so one suggests they ask Arnheim. Stumm wishes military victory could be regarded as genius, too.
\n94. Diotima lies awake pondering her dilemma: to Arnheim or not to Arnheim? And if she did, what of Tuzzi, whom she observes sleeping in various forms.
\n95. Diotima realizes the Campaign is running out of steam. Great minds, great men of letters, Great Authors, and Arnheim.
\n96. Arnheim ponders the mix of the businesslike way and the idealistic way in his writing: the medieval philosopher, Goethe, and Napoleon.
\n97. Clarisse\u2019s history with Walter, Meingast, and a brief detour with George. The Devil\u2019s Eye. Her letter to Leinsdorf went nowhere, but somebody has to be a nuisance. She didn\u2019t really mean that Walter should kill Ulrich.
\n98. A police exhibition. Bonadea appears and steers Ulrich toward Diotima for an introduction. The government busy at being busy. Which nation is it? Leinsdorf tries to create it.
\n99. The intellect outmoded. Aunt Jane. Photographers. The New Era.
\n100. General Stumm visits the Imperial Library looking for great ideas. The secret of a good librarian. The old attendant. Diotima has preceded the General. Order.
\n101. Ulrich and Diotima together at a meeting of the Campaign. How Ulrich argues. Stumm makes her feel uneasy. They argue about Arnheim. Ulrich is so set against him; Diotima wants to marry him; he has asked her. They adjourn to Rachel\u2019s room. How emotions decide a person\u2019s whole life. Diotima casts her wandering eye briefly at Ulrich.
\n102. Ulrich visits Fischel. His house has been invaded by Gerda\u2019s friends brought in by her tutor, Hans Sepp. Ulrich debates Sepp about what progress means.
\n103. Ulrich is alone with Gerda. A scientific view of progress. The law of large numbers. The new radicals. The kinetic theory of gases. What Fischel wants.
\n104. Rachel spies on the Campaign. Soliman spies on Rachel. They go to Arnheim\u2019s hotel looking for documents. They find underclothes similar to Diotima\u2019s current collection. Rachel gives Soliman an amorous kiss.
\n105. Arnheim wants marriage. Diotima wants only an affair. A love for the ages?
\n106. Arnheim contemplates the religion of money, the morality of money, and the extent of his willingness to live his life apart from it.
\n107. Count Leinsdorf finds a way to address Germany and the German Kakanians regarding the Parallel Campaign.
\n108. General Stumm thinking about redemption. Unredeemed Nationalities. Military budgets. Redemption as a spiritual transaction. Too many people with too many ideas. Honor and order.
\n109. Bonadea\u2019s system. Its flaw. Her response to losing Ulrich. Her widowhood. The power of clothes. The delusions we create to maintain our balance. Kakania loses its identity.
\n110. Moosbrugger\u2019s routine. Life outside is always the same. They have forgotten him. So many officials are occupied with is case. His life is now natural laws and citations.
\n111. Philosophers and jurists weigh the concept of criminal responsibility. Splitting legal hairs. Free will? Relative harm to society. Ulrich\u2019s father weighs in deeply and asks for his son\u2019s influence.
\n112. Arnheim tries to neutralize Ulrich. A younger version of himself, but without the marks of life. Goethe\u2019s maxim. Arnheim\u2019s father\u2019s uncanny business sense. Soliman asks if his father is a king. Most likely not. Arnheim recommends a life of business for Soliman. The four levels of Arnheim\u2019s mind. A cold shadow. Arnheim\u2019s irritation with Ulrich. The desire to draw him into his orbit.
\n113. Ulrich visits Gerda; Hans Sepp is there, too. Hans scorns the Parallel Campaign. Gerda contemplates a loveless future. Rationalism has replaced psychic awareness. The essential or the naturalistic. The superiority of the child. The Community of Pure Selflessness. The right way to live. Hans has been all along talking about love. Love makes externals disappear. Possession. Gerda rues Hans\u2019s arrested lovemaking. Ulrich proposes for argument what Gerda wants for real.
\n114. Arnheim, Diotima, and Ulrich leave the library having fund nothing helpful. They meet Stumm on his way in. The quartet divides. Arnheim\u2019s conversation makes Stumm nervous. Ulrich suggests Diotima become Arnheim\u2019s lover. Arnheim posits the end of the soul. Billiards and business. A dog. Ulrich suggests trying her luck with him. The altered contents of our reality. Boundless feeling.
\n115. Bonadea imitates Diotima\u2019s style and haunts the outside of her house where Ulrich is in attendance. She wants to save Moosbrugger. Rachel shoves them into Diotima\u2019s bedroom to keep the meeting secret. Ulrich\u2019s dream. Bonadea leaves, Rachel gets a generous tip from Ulrich.
\n116. Count Leinsdorf wants something done for the Parallel Campaign. Arnheim says the lack of new ideas and lack of support for old ones is good. One by one, Ulrich, Stumm, Diotima, and Tuzzi opine. Competition with Germany. Tuzzi is on top of Arnheim and his wife. The Count cannot decide. Ulrich ponders the link between violence and love; the relation of metaphor and truth. He proposes a World Secretariat for Precision and Soul. Arnheim challenges Ulrich. Tension in relationships among participants emerges. Ulrich remembers telling Tuzzi he would kill himself after his year was up without results. He refuses Arnheim\u2019s challenge. The Count ends the meeting without reaching any decision.
\n117. Soliman seduces Rachel. Or the other way around.
\n118. Walter prepares to go downtown. Clarisse opens a volume of Nietzsche to a passage she feels describes Walter. They struggle over the book. Walter wants to talk. Clarisse doesn\u2019t. Walter\u2019s thoughts drift to Ulrich. Walter has a temporary fantasy. Fish. Clarisse suggests again that he kill Ulrich. Walter realizes that Clarisse is mad. He leaves for town and calmer rhythm.
\n119. Bank Director Fischel discovers what Arnheim is really up to: trying to control the Galician oil fields. Gerda visits Ulrich to give him this news, but she is really there to give herself to him. She cannot see it through.
\n120. Walter arrives downtown. He encounters a large crowd, which no one can explain. Mob psychology. It nears the palace. Ulrich is here to relate Arnheim\u2019s intentions to Count Leinsdorf. Leinsdorf believes the demonstration is an expression of political immaturity. The crowd in contrast with Ulrich\u2019s loneliness. He is mistaken by the crowd for Leinsdorf. Thinking men suffer the most during revolutions. Leinsdorf sends Ulrich away to Diotima with some advice.
\n121. Ulrich arrives at Diotima\u2019s but only Arnheim is there. Arnheim tries to draw Ulrich into a conversation. He speaks of corporate leadership and decision-making. He offers Ulrich a position in his firm, but is quickly troubled by it. Ulrich mentions the oil fields. Arnheim is nonplussed, but manages to brush aside the suggestion. Ulrich thinks of his loneliness, of Gerda, of Walter, of Bonadea. He considers his life, Arnheim, and is tempted to accept the offer. They conclude with more talk of the offer, which Arnheim hopes Ulrich will forget.
\n122. Ulrich walks home from Diotima\u2019s. He won\u2019t accept Arnheim’s\u2019 offer. What glue holds for other people? Ulrich cannot feel fully in charge of his affairs. The curse of life\u2019s events. He encounters a prostitute, gives her what she would have asked, and sends her off. Moosbrugger. The repressed instincts of us all. A rampant metaphor of order. He must live like everyone else or come to grips with his impossible possibilities. Arriving home, all the lights are on and there is Clarisse.
\n123. Clarisse hands Ulrich a telegram announcing his father\u2019s death. Clarisse\u2019s self-analysis. She wants to have Ulrich\u2019s child. She describes the hole in reality. She sexually assaults him. Ulrich resists, she leaves. Almost half of Ulrich\u2019s year off is gone. The images of his life. The relationship between him and his surroundings. He recalls the major\u2019s wife. He resolves to deal with his situation with the utmost precision.<\/p>\n

Volume 2<\/p>\n

Part III – Into the Millennium (The Criminals)<\/p>\n

1. Ulrich travels to\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014and arrives at his father\u2019s house. His sister Agathe will be there, not having met him at the station. Ulrich cannot stand her husband. When he meets her they are dressed in almost identical, clownish lounging suits.
\n2. They discuss her husband, Hagauer. She will never go back to him. Hagauer\u2019s life is absolutely correct, but without passion. The reason she married him. There is no \u201cother man\u201d she is leaving him for.
\n3. Ulrich takes his scientific work to the room where his father lies. He thinks human beings come in twos, as man and woman. Ulrich at one with everything around him. Memories of his childhood: cardboard circus animals, fighting for the girl who does not exist, Agathe inspiring a sudden longing in him to be a girl. The multitude of hangers-on hoping to gain from his father\u2019s demise. What will his own end be like?
\n4. Ulrich sees Agathe as a woman for the first time. She seems to be a dreamlike variant of himself. Father wishes to buried with his decorations. Agathe makes Ulrich realize how obscurely he talks. Society\u2019s virtues are vices to the saint. Father\u2019s posthumous letters, his will. Schwung, Father\u2019s professional adversary, arrives. How we release our enmities near death. Schwung does not impress Agathe or Ulrich.
\n5. Ulrich and Agathe talk about the past and are surprised by their shared state of mind. Ulrich quotes their Father. Agathe quotes Hagauer. She tells of how he corrected his students\u2019 translations. They substitute copies for their Father\u2019s real medals, against his final will. Agathe suggests leaving something in his pocket like they left something in the servant\u2019s cottage as children. Agathe removes her garter and slips it into her Father\u2019s pocket.
\n6. Ulrich and Agathe receive those paying their last respects. The procession begins, with Ulrich on foot accompanied by high-ranking government officials. Agathe is back with the women and accompanied by Hagauer. Ulrich feels she has been torn from his side. Ulrich feels to be the heir of a great power, the coming of age for him. His father, who loved ceremony, is not seeing this cort\u00e8ge. Are his medals and Agathe\u2019s garter still with him?
\n7. Ulrich gets a letter from Clarisse. It concerns Moosbrugger; she must meet him. The way to understand another person is to take him out into yourself. Her brother, Siegmund, a doctor, gets her a letter of introduction to see Moosbrugger in the clinic.
\n8. Ulrich and Agathe discuss the difficulties of two people living together. Ulrich defines the family. They remember the furnishings of the house when they were children. They live there now as they did then. Ulrich finishes the work on his mathematical investigation. He speaks to Agathe of destiny. Finishing his work leaves him with nothing more to do, and was the last thing that tied him to his past. He searches for something in Agathe that repels him, but cannot find it. Agathe proposes being at peace and asks Ulrich if he, too, would like to live accordingly.
\n9. When Agathe left on the train for ___________ the decision never to return to Hagauer reminded her of her mysterious childhood illness. Ulrich suggests a they take an outing. She remembered her student days in the convent, learning her lessons but not believing a word of them and dutifully obeying the rules. How could she have married Hagauer? She tried infidelity but could not take it seriously. She got married and thought she could put up with it. When Hagauer came for the funeral, Ulrich put him up in a hotel rather than the house, and got rid of him as soon afterwards as he could. Agathe feels she will soon lose her beauty and with it her feelings of self-assurance.
\n10. They arrive. While climbing up a hill, they talk about bad acts and good people, and that it\u2019s never what one does that counts, but only what one does next. They finish their ascent and talk about the moments that lift the weight of life from us. Ulrich has a bit of painful self-reflection. They enter a stone cabin, which is occupied. They are served a meal by the occupants, whom Ulrich pays for the intrusion, and discuss the morality of their time. Agathe wants to kill Hagauer. Ulrich proposes they stay together. She feels one could always be doing what is right and yet it wouldn\u2019t matter at all what one did.
\n11. Ulrich and Agathe no longer speak of living together permanently, and Agathe\u2019s desire to do away with Hagauer still smolders. The last step is never taken. Ulrich opines on morality. \u201cIsn\u2019t it good to be good?\u201d Back to morality. Agathe embraces Ulrich tenderly. This strangely reminds him of Arnheim\u2019s arm around his shoulders. Agathe\u2019s relationship to him hovers between wife and sister. One feels linked to everything, but can\u2019t get close to anything.
\n12. The uncommunicable experiences of mystics. Their relation to God. Faith mustn\u2019t ever be more than an hour old. Agathe\u2019s first marriage. Agathe came to consider anything new as something less actual than extremely uncertain. She lost the sense of meaning in her life, and to do penance for this sin, married Hagauer. She considers how it would have been if her first husband had lived. She wears a locket with his portrait inside. They return to the oneness, which anyone can experience. Perhaps it is a dream state. Agathe\u2019s mystic state. Ulrich sets up mysticism against rationality. Mysticism as a religious experience, and the reaction of churches to it. What Ulrich believes. They discover father\u2019s \u201cpoison drawer.\u2019 Agathe walks a secret path that makes her feel superior to Ulrich.
\n13. Ulrich returns home to letters, telephone messages, and a call from General Stumm. They break bread. Ulrich is not a man of action. Stumm\u2019s involvement in the oil field deal. A military secret. An update on the Parallel Campaign. Diotima calls it a New Spirit now. Stumm thinks it might be a military spirit. Stumm urges Ulrich to see Leinsdorf again. Ulrich wants out of the whole affair.
\n14. Ulrich visits Walter and Clarisse. Meingast has moved in, going through his latest transformation, writing a section of his new book. Walter and Clarisse revere him; Ulrich does not. Walter challenges his indifference to their guest. They take Ulrich to meet him. Outside in the bushes, near the street, a man lurks in the shadows. The four watch him encounter two women. Ulrich makes a wry comment. Meingast finds deeper meaning. Clarisse is borne forward by Meingast\u2019s comment, but in what direction?
\n15. Ulrich recalls that before he left for home, Agathe announced that they must change their father\u2019s will. The story of Aunt Malvina and cousin Alexandra. Ulrich objects, but sees his sister\u2019s fierce determination. He realizes that his explanations gave her the rationale for this. Agathe practices imitating her father\u2019s handwriting. They ratify their decision to stay together. Ulrich realizes this will be the end of the experiment of his \u201clife on leave.\u201d Perhaps of his involvement in the Parallel Campaign, too.
\n16. Ulrich visits Diotima but is received by Tuzzi. Tuzzi asks what is meant by the soul and Ulrich explains. Tuzzi privately recalls having read Arnheim\u2019s books, which he considers to be insufferable. Though the relation between Arnheim and Diotima has cooled; Tuzzi is still unsure of it. Ulrich says that conscious action is stimulated in two levels simultaneously. Back to the Parallel Campaign and its watchword, \u201cAction!\u201d The difference between amateur and professional pacifism. The European balance of power.
\n17. Diotima receives Ulrich. The failure of the Parallel Campaign. He reminds her of \u201cboundless love.\u201d Her friendship with Arnheim. Ulrich kisses her hand and Diotima does not withdraw it until Rachel enters the room. Ulrich informs her he is resigning from the Campaign. She offers, to assist him, one of the secretaries of the three men who are in love with her. She talks of Ulrich\u2019s friendship with Bonadea.
\n18. Ulrich begins a letter to Agathe advising her not to change their father\u2019s will. Thus begins a long rumination of the merits of being good or bad, of the standing of morality against immorality, and of their motive force on personal action.
\n19. Siegmund tries to arrange for Clarisse to see Moosbrugger. Walter is opposed. Their early years. Meingast compares Moosbrugger to the Savior. The concept of salvation. Ulrich is summoned to get Clarisse admittance to the psychiatric clinic. He agrees but thinks it is not sensible. Ulrich and Siegmund agree that Clarisse is abnormal and Meingast is a gasbag.
\n20. Ulrich visits Count Leinsdorf. Leinsdorf talks of the difficulties of having an empire made of so many nationalities. He has nothing against Jews, but they should be allowed to return to their true character. It is the true Catholic faith that allows us to see things as they really are. Something must be done. The balance of ideas in Europe must be given a push. Leinsdorf pivots to saying the Campaign needs fine words which Ulrich can provide and suggests a man from Tuzzi\u2019s office as a secretary.
\n21. Agathe, living in a state of release. She attends to the legal details of the estate, while preparing a felony. She considers her appearance. She retrieves a capsule of deadly powder she has had since marrying Hagauer. She recalls her near-death childhood illness and the power it gave her. The world of logical thought and the affective world of feelings, moods, and passions. She will take her life if its new turn proves to have changed nothing. The locket and the capsule are stashed into a crate meant for indefinite storage. Entering into illicit relations with Ulrich, or not. Cast all thou hast into the fire.
\n22. Ulrich in town meets an astronomer acquaintance, Dr. Sratstil. They talk about a recent paper and literature, how it creates feelings. Experience and activity leading to feeling. The momentariness of literature. Dissuading Agathe from altering the will. A misstep has to be made good. Impressions of the city center. Speculations on morality. One must live with moral contradictions. Thoughts of living with Agathe. He notices a woman giving him a look and follows her. He is distracted by the lingering gaze of another woman: Bonadea. But she is not free.
\n23. Bonadea visits Ulrich. They spar over her relationship with Diotima. She talks of Diotima\u2019s interest in her sexuality. Bonadea quotes from Diotima\u2019s extensive reading on the sex instinct and the sexual problem. Her efforts to train her husband. Bonadea lying on Ulrich\u2019s bed, with her mentor\u2019s analysis coming to mind. She vows never to fall prey to sudden hurricanes. Ulrich, lying beside her, thinking about the split in Bonadea\u2019s life, and recalling three images from his past. He tells her of Agathe\u2019s coming. She thinks he means to banish her from the house and accuses him of starting an affair with her.
\n24. Agathe arrives. The next day, in Ulrich\u2019s absence, she explores her new surroundings. She presses him over the house\u2019s furnishings. That and other matters encompass Ulrich\u2019s question, \u201cHow should I live?\u201d Ulrich helps Agathe unpack her bags and put way their contents. He contemplates her beauty. The (naked?) Agathe gets out of her bath and Ulrich helps her dress.
\n25. Later that evening, Ulrich explains to Agathe his self-love. The effect of the naked Agathe lying on the bed beside him. The outside self and the inside self. The ease of talking to Agathe. They decide they are twins. The ancient longing for an doppelg\u00e4nger of the opposite sex. The dream of transformation. The folly of exuberance. Agathe goes to sleep. Ulrich tiptoes to his study but is able to work, uneasy about the new responsibility of his sister.
\n26. Clarisse waits for Ulrich to deliver the permit to see Moosbrugger. Of Clarisse\u2019s will, her inner power. Walter still opposes her visiting the murderer. Their conversation turns to the meaning of their marriage. Clarisse has a sign. In the garden, Walter and Siegmund, Clarisse and Meingast. Walter\u2019s jealously of Meingast. Siegmund offers his advice. Meingast questions Clarisse regarding her sexuality and her relations with Walter. He asks what she wants from Moosbrugger, but she cannot answer. Her madness descends on Meingast. She links the exhibitionist and Moosbrugger. Walter admits the madness of the creative man. He sails toward Clarisse, but she eludes him.
\n27. Ulrich\u2019s takes on the duty to find Agathe a better husband. Stumm visits Ulrich (with bread) but is introduced to Agathe and is stunned by her. He mentions that Diotima is getting competition in the salon business from a Frau Drangsal, a mentor of poets. He invites Ulrich to a crucial session of the Campaign. Diotima has taken Agathe under her wing as her \u201corphan sister.\u201d
\n28. Agathe moves in and takes over the house. She buys new clothes, which Ulrich helps her try on\u2014all part of getting her a husband. Ulrich \u201chas fun\u201d watching her in ways that would only be most interesting for a stranger. Ulrich\u2019s definition of love makes Agathe flush a dark red. Ulrich sees them as the shadowy doubling of their own selves in each other\u2019s opposite nature. They admire each other physically. Ulrich\u2019s twelve-year-old on the streetcar. They walk through town, arm in arm, a perfectly matched couple. Inside, though, they do not see things the same way.
\n29. Agathe receives a large envelope in the mail from Hagauer. Ulrich has exchanged letters with Hagauer announcing Agathe\u2019s wish to divorce him. Hagauer spends three days writing his response, following five buttons of reason. He points out her faults and demands she returns so he can save her from herself.
\n30. Agathe, reviewing her desire to kill her husband, altering her father\u2019s will, and imposing herself on her brother, wonders about her overall worth. Ulrich tells her she is \u201csocially retarded.\u201d Her joy at offending Hagauer has turned hollow. Ulrich tells her he was doing his duty. He manipulates the concepts of good and evil to justify what they have done. They decide they are both morally retarded.
\n31. Agathe leaves the house. She decides that by the end of the evening she will have killed herself. She ends up at a neglected grave far outside the city. She feels superfluous. Life is so complete that it could do without her. She later realizes she ran away to hurt Ulrich, who had hurt her. A man has appeared beside her, offering sympathy and succor. He is Lindner, a teacher at the local gymnasium, who has heard of both Ulrich and Hagauer. He is a widower with a son. Agathe, uplifted and returning home, proposes to visit him. The man had done her good.
\n32. (A comic scene) General Stumm comes to visit Ulrich, but without bread. He has been told to escort Ulrich and whoever else to the madhouse to see Moosbrugger. Also, Frau Drangsal will be having her showdown tonight with Diotima and Arnheim will be there. Stumm says there is something in the air, but he doesn\u2019t know what it is or when it will happen. When he meets Clarisse he tells her she looks positively like an angel.
\n33. They visit the madhouse. On the way, Clarisse lectures Stumm about the will, of which he does not understand a word. Upon arriving, Stumm tries to engage Ulrich in a political discussion in preparation for the gathering at Diotima\u2019s that night. Frau Drangsal will make her pacifist case, while Stumm argues to arm, as other countries are doing. He expects Ulrich to mediate between the two camps. The party, all dressed in white coats, which in Clarisse\u2019s case makes her feel like a man, is lead through the asylum by Dr. Friedenthal into wards containing progressively severe cases, which progressively disturb Clarisse. She is recognized by one inmate as the Emperor\u2019s seventh son. Siegmund attempts to reason with another of the inmates. An incident occurs which requires Friedenthal to curtail the tour without seeing Moosbrugger. Clarisse is absent-mined and quiet. Stumm leaves unaffected.
\n34. A gala reception is to be held at the Tuzzi\u2019s. Count Leinsdorf has given Diotima the guest list. He insists on giving capital and culture one last chance. He visits Diotima and gives her a prime (to him) example of how Austria never makes anything out of what belongs to it.
\n35. At the reception, the stars of the parallel Campaign are assembled for a purely social occasion. Observing all this is Privy Councillor Meseritscher, a well-connected and influential journalist. Diotima asks him about the Count\u2019s inexplicable speech earlier in the Upper House, and his opinion of Feuermaul, one of Drangsal\u2019s prot\u00e9g\u00e9s, who is present. Meseritscher give diplomatic answers to both questions. Tuzzi also want to know what he thinks of this Feuermaul. Meseritscher makes his way to the Count and asks him for his opinion of Feuermaul, who replies that there is nothing to be said about him and that the only reason he is here is because he, the Count, was badgered by Baroness Wayden.
\n36. The reception (cont\u2019d.). Ulrich and Diotima talk about Drangsal and Feuermaul. The Minister wants to know what an \u2018ethos\u2019 is. Tuzzi asks Ulrich and the general about the oil fields, and Feuermaul. Arming for peace. The goodness of man. Fischel greets Ulrich. His family and Hans Sepp are present, too. Gerda thinks Feuermaul is a great poet; Hans Sepp thinks he is a careerist. Two currents: action and loving mankind. Ulrich approaches the Fischel family. Gerda is flushed, then turns pale. Bonadea passes by.
\n37. The reception (cont\u2019d.). Feuermaul telling everyone he speaks to that we must love one another. The difference between idiots and cretins. His Grace believes that man was endowed with reason, but how they use it! He is informed by Ulrich about Feuermaul. The General is confused by the psychology of the masses. The difference between a normal person and an insane one.
\n38. The reception (cont\u2019d.). Agathe wants to go home. Peace through love or peace through power. Ulrich explains morality to Agathe, though he doesn\u2019t know what it is himself. She says she encountered a good person that day. They retreat to the anteroom. Ulrich disparages him. They move to the kitchen. Rachel is pregnant. Ulrich concludes that morality is the order and integrity of emotional life. Stumm announces that Feuermaul and one other made a joint proposal, a seeming compromise between love and hate. Arnheim, Diotima, Tuzzi, and Leinsdorf invade the kitchen. Arnheim states Feuermaul\u2019s proposal. Stumm wants it to go away. Arnheim wants to leverage it. The General\u2019s report. Agathe is hurt by the things Ulrich is saying to people about feelings. Ulrich announces he is not coming to the campaign anymore. Agathe has already left by herself. <\/p>\n

This is the end of the published version of The Man Without Qualities<\/em>. Twenty more chapters, which were in galley proofs when Musil withdrew them for reworking, continue the novel, but do not finish it. They are summarized below.<\/p>\n

——-<\/p>\n

39. Lindner\u2019s world view. The strong protect the weak. His soldierly ways. Agathe! God. He would convince her of her duty to return to her husband.
\n40. Lindner\u2019s daily routine. Bathing, exercise, grooming. It\u2019s all a moral imperative. Goethe. Every minute accounted for. The consequences of free time.
\n41. The men surrounding Agathe: Ulrich, Hagauer, Ulrich. Hagauer\u2019s letter. Agathe suddenly has to leave home.
\n42. Agathe hastens to Lindner. His house, lacking no furnishing, but with no excess in them. He begins his lunch with his son Peter a quarter hour late.
\n43. Concerning Peter. (Ah, Peter.) His philosophical upbringing. Agathe arrives. Her impression of the house and what it recalls. The fourth man\u2014her father. Do not run away again.
\n44. Lindner begins his harangue. Agathe pays more attention to his manner than his words. Lindner is distracted by her breasts. Agathe challenges him and resists him as no other woman has. She mocks him and Lindner is confused. Peter hears it all through the keyhole. The visit ends.
\n45. Ulrich and Agathe at the edge of consummating their union of souls. Thy do not proceed, but not for lack of desire.
\n46. They are slightly embarrassed the next morning. Ulrich\u2019s individual experiences. Agathe quotes from an author whose bearings have become lost. Science and faith (Heb. 11:1). Agathe thinks, of Ulrich, he will love no other woman after me. The solace of her longing.
\n47. Ulrich and Agathe withdraw from society. Their extraordinary discord. Ulrich prepares to submit to the world. Or maybe not. Agathe experiences the same thing, in her own way. The meaning of \u201clove thy neighbor.\u201d John 4:16-18.
\n48. Ulrich and Agathe continued. Does love make two people be of one mind, or is this being blinded by love? The papier-m\u00e2che horse. The love of many different things, including truth.
\n49. Stumm barges in and gets caught up in the rumination on love. Including Diotima. The Parallel Campaign now has a goal–a World Peace conference. Leinsdorf is not on board. \u201cWe\u2019ve got rid of Feuermaul!\u201d
\n50. As Ulrich sees Stumm out, Agathe reads notes on love in Ulrich\u2019s diary. Is love an emotion? The relation of love to the world. Strolls with Agathe bring up the idea of beauty. To love something and beautify it are one and the same. Our reality is an expression of opinion. Emotions must be changeable if they are to endure. Love is an ecstasy.
\n51. Stumm and Ulrich still conversing in the garden. Lying. The Parallel Campaign\u2019s new stature. Diotima\u2019s new status. Tuzzi\u2019s new awakening. Diotima and Arnheim\u2019s are Great Souls. Stumm removed from the Parallel Campaign.
\n52. Agathe reads Ulrich\u2019s notes on what an emotion is, a continuation of a conversation they had at their cousin\u2019s house (Ch. 38). Three answers. Pleasure or its absence. Attributes of emotions. What is real and what is logical. Instincts and not emotions? Scientific interpretations. Drives. Pleasure again. The supremacy of simplicity.
\n53. Feuermaul\u2019s resolution discarded. Reason and logic. Report D. The military keeps an eye on the Congress for World Peace. Summer 1914. Logic and order. Stumm assigned to neutralize Leinsdorf. Ulrich too?
\n54. Agathe still reading Ulrichs\u2019s diary, notes on emotion–their causes, their affect on behavior. the action of emotions. How they pattern the world. Are emotions a state or a process? Is the \u201cI\u201d the central element of an emotion? Their double direction. Their double existence.
\n55. Sixteen pages of densely written analysis of emotions of interest to, and likely comprehended by, Musil scholars only.
\n56. Lindner at the piano waiting for Agathe (who is late, as usual). His effeminate childhood and how he overcame it. His disinclination to jokes. Agathe\u2019s mockery. How Lindner became what he was. Progress–the oppression of knowledge. His departure from God, but not from belief. A new way of thinking. More on his development, and not one to be intimidated by the likes of Agathe. 1 Cor. 13:1. Cathedrals and paper flowers. The love that one possesses, and the love that possesses one.
\n57. Hearing Ulrich\u2019s return, Agathe straightens up his papers and puts them away for later.
\n58. Specific and nonspecific emotions. Emotions of the inner world and of the outer world.<\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

Characters, in order of appearance:<\/p>\n

Ulrich – A man without qualities.
\nUlrich\u2019s father – A prominent legal scholar.
\nLeonora – A chanteuse.
\nBonadea – A judge\u2019s wife.
\nWalter – Ulrich\u2019s childhood friend.
\nClarisse – Walter\u2019s wife.
\nMoosbrugger – A carpenter and sex murderer.
\nCount Stallburg – a friend of Ulrich\u2019s father
\nImperial Liege-Count Leinsdorf – The motive force of the Parallel Campaign.
\nErmelinda Tuzzi, called Diotima – Ulrich\u2019s cousin.
\nSection Chief Tuzzi – Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Diotima\u2019s husband.
\nRachel – Diotima\u2019s maid.
\nDr. Paul Arnheim – An industrialist and intellectual.
\nSoliman – Arnheim\u2019s servant.
\nBank Director Fischel – A mid-level bank manager.
\nGeneral Stumm von Bordwehr – Military Education and Cultural Affairs.
\nGerda – Fischel\u2019s daughter.
\nClementine – Fischel\u2019s wife.
\nMeingast – A philosopher.
\nGeorge Gr\u00f6schl- a student of Meingast\u2019s
\nHans Sepp – Gerda\u2019s boyfriend.
\nAgathe – Ulrich\u2019s younger sister.
\nHagauer – Agathe\u2019s second husband.
\nProfessor Schwung – A legal scholar.
\nTwo Polish peasants.
\nSiegmund – Clarisse\u2019s brother.
\nFr\u00e4ulein Strastil – An astronomer.
\nLindner – A teacher.
\nDr. Friedenthal – a psychiatrist.
\nPrivy Councillor Mesertischer – a journalist.
\nFrau Melanie Drangsal – a hostess and mentor.
\nFriedel Feuermaul – a young poet.<\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

Character Summary
\n(page number of first appearance)<\/p>\n

Agathe (mentioned 80, 734)
\nUlrich\u2019s sister, wife of Hagauer, \u201ccounseled\u201d by Lindner<\/p>\n

Paul Arnheim (mentioned 2, 98)
\nIndustrialist and philosopher, German, a Jew, independent advisor to the Parallel Campaign, flirts heavily with Diotima<\/p>\n

Bonadea (23)
\nThe wife of a jurist, a nymphomaniac, and lover to Ulrich<\/p>\n

Clarisse (45)
\nWife of Walter, a younger friend of both Walter and Ulrich when the three were children<\/p>\n

Diotima (Ermelinda Tuzzi) (mentioned 2, 93)
\nWife of Section Chief Tuzzi, Ulrich\u2019s cousin, organizer of the Parallel Campaign, flirts heavily with Arnheim<\/p>\n

Frau Drangsal (1011)
\nA hostess of wealth and status, mentor to Feuermal<\/p>\n

Friedel Feuermal (1011)
\nFrau Drangsal\u2019s prot\u00e9g\u00e9, a poet<\/p>\n

Bank Director Leo Fischel (139)
\nFriend to Ulrich, a Jew<\/p>\n

Dr. Friedenthal (1062)
\nChief of the mental hospital where Moosbrugger is housed<\/p>\n

George Gr\u00f6schl (476)
\nA friend of Meingast, also a sexual predator to young Clarisse and Marion<\/p>\n

Gerda (73)
\nDaughter of Fischel, girlfriend of Hans Sepp, enamored of Ulrich<\/p>\n

Hagauer (735)
\nAgathe\u2019s second husband, an educator<\/p>\n

Hans Sepp (333)
\nGerda\u2019s boyfriend, a German and anti-Semite<\/p>\n

Leinsdorf (87)
\nImperial Liege-Count of Austria, creator of the Parallel Campaign<\/p>\n

Leona (16)
\nUlrich\u2019s one-time lover, a chanteuse<\/p>\n

Lindner (1048)
\nAgathe\u2019s self-appointed counselor, an educator<\/p>\n

Dr. Meingast (476)
\nA philosopher<\/p>\n

Privy Counselor Meseritscher (1082)
\nA journalist<\/p>\n

Moosbrugger (67)
\nA carpenter and sex murderer.<\/p>\n

Rachel (97)
\nDiotima\u2019s maid, enamored (sort of) with Soliman, and definitely with Ulrich<\/p>\n

Professor Schwung (755)
\nA legal scholar, rival to Ulrich\u2019s father<\/p>\n

Soliman (99)
\nArnheim\u2019s servant, enamored of Rachel<\/p>\n

Siegmund (774)
\nClarisse\u2019s brother, a psychiatrist<\/p>\n

Count Stallburg (78)
\nFriend of Ulrich\u2019s father<\/p>\n

Fr\u00e4ulein Stratsil (939)
\nAn astronomer, an acquaintance of Ulrich\u2019s<\/p>\n

Major General Stumm von Bordwehr (177)
\nAustrian Army, unofficial member of the Parallel Campaign<\/p>\n

Section Chief Hans Tuzzi (94)
\nHusband of Diotima, Section Chief in the Austrian government, advisor to Leinsdorf<\/p>\n

Ulrich (6)
\nThe novel\u2019s main character, the man without qualities<\/p>\n

Ulrich\u2019s father (8)
\nA distinguished legal scholar<\/p>\n

Walter (45)
\nHusband of Clarisse, Ulrich\u2019s childhood friend<\/p>\n

Five characters, Aunt Jane (495, the friend of a great aunt), Malvina (862, aunt to Agathe and Ulrich), Alexandra (862, cousin to Agathe and Ulrich), Marion (475, Clarisse\u2019s younger sister), and Baroness Wayden (1087) are spoken of and are part of the story, but never make an appearance.<\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

Character appearances by chapter<\/p>\n

Part I – A Sort of Introduction<\/p>\n

1. None. Diotima and Arnheim are mentioned.
\n2. Ulrich
\n3. Ulrich
\n4. None
\n5. Ulrich
\n6. Ulrich, Leona
\n7. Ulrich, Bonadea
\n8. None
\n9. Ulrich
\n10. Ulrich
\n11. Ulrich
\n12. Bonadea
\n13. Ulrich
\n14. Ulrich, Walter, Clarisse
\n15. None
\n16. Ulrich, Walter
\n17. Walter, Clarisse
\n18. Moosbrugger
\n19. Ulrich, Stallburg<\/p>\n

Part II – Pseudoreality Prevails<\/p>\n

20. Ulrich, Stallburg
\n21. Leinsdorf
\n22. Ulrich, Diotima, Tuzzi, Rachel
\n23. Arnheim, Diotima
\n24. Leinsdorf, Diotima
\n25. Diotima, Tuzzi
\n26. Soliman, Arnheim, Diotima
\n27. Arnheim, Ulrich
\n28. None
\n29. Bonadea, Ulrich, Walter
\n30. Ulrich, Moosbrugger
\n31. Bonadea, Ulrich
\n32. Moosbrugger, Ulrich
\n33. Ulrich, Bonadea
\n34. Ulrich
\n35. Ulrich, Fischel
\n36. None
\n37. Leinsdorf, Ulrich
\n38. Walter, Clarisse, Moosbrugger, Ulrich
\n39. None
\n40. Ulrich, Leinsdorf
\n41. Rachel
\n42. Stumm, Arnheim, Leinsdorf, Diotima
\n43. Ulrich, Arnheim, Leinsdorf, Diotima, Moosbrugger, Rachel
\n44. Ulrich, Rachel, Diotima, Stumm, Rachel, Soliman
\n45. Arnheim, Diotima
\n46. Arnheim
\n47. Arnheim, Leinsdorf
\n48. Arnheim
\n49. Tuzzi, Arnheim, Diotima
\n50. Arnheim, Diotima, Tuzzi
\n51. Fischel
\n52. Tuzzi, Arnheim
\n53. Moosbrugger
\n54. Ulrich, Walter, Clarisse
\n55. Rachel, Moosbrugger, Ulrich, Soliman
\n56. Leinsdorf, (Clarisse)
\n57. Diotima, Tuzzi, Leinsdorf
\n58. Leinsdorf, Ulrich
\n59. Moosbrugger
\n60. (Moosbrugger)
\n61. (Moosbrugger)
\n62. Ulrich
\n63. Bonadea, Ulrich
\n64. Stumm, Diotima
\n65. Arnheim, Diotima
\n66. Ulrich, Diotima
\n67. Diotima, Ulrich
\n68. (Ulrich, Diotima)
\n69. Diotima, Ulrich
\n70. Clarisse, Ulrich
\n71. Diotima
\n72. None
\n73. Gerda, Ulrich
\n74. Ulrich\u2019s father
\n75. Diotima, Stumm
\n76. (Leinsdorf), Arnheim, Diotima
\n77. (Arnheim)
\n78. (Diotima, Tuzzi)
\n79. Soliman, Rachel
\n80. (Stumm)
\n81. Leinsdorf, Ulrich
\n82. Ulrich, Clarisse, (Walter)
\n83. Ulrich, Fischel
\n84. Ulrich, Clarisse, Walter
\n85. Stumm, Ulrich
\n86. (Arnheim)
\n87. Moosbrugger
\n88. None
\n89. Arnheim, Stumm, Stumm\u2019s dog.
\n90. None
\n91. Tuzzi, Ulrich
\n92. Arnheim
\n93. Ulrich, Stumm
\n94. Diotima
\n95. Diotima, (Arnheim)
\n96. (Arnheim)
\n97. Clarisse, Walter, Meingast, George
\n98. Leinsdorf, Bonadea, Ulrich, Diotima
\n99. Aunt Jane
\n100. Stumm, Diotima
\n101. Ulrich, Diotima (Stumm, Arnheim)
\n102. Ulrich, Fischel, Gerda, Hans Sepp
\n103. Ulrich, Gerda
\n104. Rachel, Soliman
\n105. Arnheim, Diotima
\n106. Arnheim
\n107. Leinsdorf
\n108. Stumm
\n109. Bonadea
\n110. Moosbrugger
\n111. Ulrich\u2019s father
\n112. Arnheim, Ulrich
\n113. Ulrich, Gerda, Hans Sepp
\n114. Arnheim, Ulrich, Diotima
\n115. Bonadea, Ulrich, Rachel
\n116. Leinsdorf, Arnheim, Ulrich, Stumm, Diotima, Tuzzi
\n117. Soliman, Rachel
\n118. Walter, Clarisse
\n119. Fischel, Arnheim, Gerda, Ulrich
\n120. Walter, Ulrich, Leinsdorf
\n121. Ulrich, Diotima, Arnheim
\n122. Ulrich, Moosbrugger, Clarisse
\n123. Clarisse, Ulrich<\/p>\n

Volume 2<\/p>\n

Part III – Into the Millennium (The Criminals)<\/p>\n

1. Ulrich, Agathe
\n2. Ulrich, Agathe, (Hagauer)
\n3. Ulrich, Agathe
\n4. Ulrich, Agathe, Schwung
\n5. Ulrich, Agathe
\n6. Ulrich, Agathe, Hagauer
\n7. Ulrich (Clarisse, Moosbrugger)
\n8. Ulrich, Agathe
\n9. Agathe, Ulrich
\n10. Agathe, Ulrich
\n11. Agathe, Ulrich
\n12. Agathe
\n13. Ulrich, Stumm
\n14. Ulrich, Walter, Clarisse, Meingast
\n15. Ulrich, Agathe, Malvina, Alexandra
\n16. Ulrich, Tuzzi, (Arnheim, Diotima)
\n17. Diotima, Ulrich. Rachel (Arnheim, Bonadea)
\n18. Ulrich
\n19. Siegmund, Clarisse, (Moosbrugger), Walter, Meingast, Ulrich
\n20. Ulrich, Leinsdorf
\n21. Agathe
\n22. Ulrich, Sratsil, Bonadea
\n23. Bonadea, Ulrich, (Diotima)
\n24. Agathe, Ulrich
\n25. Ulrich, Agathe
\n26. Clarisse, (Moosbrugger), Walter, Siegmund, Meingast
\n27. Ulrich, Stumm, (Diotima, Drangsal, Feuermal, Diotima, Agathe)
\n28. Agathe, Ulrich
\n29. Agathe, Ulrich, (Hagauer)
\n30. Agathe, Ulrich
\n31. Agathe Lindner
\n32. Stumm, Ulrich, (Drangsal, Diotima, Arnheim), Clarisse
\n33. Clarisse, Stumm, Ulrich, Friedenthal, Siegmund
\n34. Leinsdorf, Diotima
\n35. Meseritscher, Diotima, Feuermal, Leinsdorf
\n36. Ulrich, Diotima, Tuzzi, Fischel, Hans Sepp, Gerda, Bonadea
\n37. Feuermal, Leinsdorf, Ulrich
\n38. Agathe, Ulrich, Rachel, Arnheim, Tuzzi, Diotima
\n39. Lindner
\n40. Lindner
\n41. Ulrich, Agathe
\n42. Agathe, Lindner
\n43. Peter, Lindner, Agathe
\n44. Lindner, Agathe, Peter
\n45. Ulrich, Agathe
\n46. Ulrich, Agathe
\n47. Ulrich, Agathe
\n48. Ulrich, Agathe
\n49. Stumm, Agathe, Ulrich
\n50. (Agathe reading Ulrich’s diary)
\n51. Ulrich, Stumm
\n52. (Agathe reading Ulrich’s diary)
\n53. Ulrich, Stumm
\n54. (Agathe reading Ulrich’s diary)
\n55. (Agathe reading Ulrich’s diary)
\n56. Lindner
\n57. Agathe, Ulrich
\n58. Ulrich<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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