Brock Eldon (@brockeldon): "For everyone asking what The Man Without Qualities actually is: Set in Vienna, 1913, in the years just before WWI. Written over 20+ years. Never finished. Part satire, part philosophical treatise, part love and crime story. It’s about a man with no fixed identity

For everyone asking what The Man Without Qualities actually is:

Set in Vienna, 1913, in the years just before WWI.
Written over 20+ years. Never finished.
Part satire, part philosophical treatise, part love and crime story.
It’s about a man with no fixed identity—and a society drifting toward collapse without realizing it.

So, yes—when I say it’s about everything, I do mean it.

My Kindle says I’m 25% into The Man Without Qualities in a week.

That alone tells you everything—I haven’t been this engrossed in a book in years.

So yes, I’m calling it now: book of 2026.

“What’s it all about?”

—Everything . . .

Mar 19

3:12 PM