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“Kakania was, after all, a country for geniuses; which is probably what brought it to its ruin”. R. Musil, The Man without Qualities, transl. by Sophie Wilkins and Burton Pike, 2 vols., Vintage Books, New York, 1996, vol. I, p. 31. From this point on the work will be cited with the abbreviation MWQ followed by the volume and page number (the second volume comprises the section From The Posthumous papers, translated by Burton Pike).
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Bartocci, C. (2011). Robert Musil. In: Bartocci, C., Betti, R., Guerraggio, A., Lucchetti, R. (eds) Mathematical Lives. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13606-1_12
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