After having finished reading the first volume, not sure what it is, but Heimito von Durerer’s novel manages to grab me as soon as I start reading it again. If you have enjoyed Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities, this must be your next reading… A novel that continuous the investigations about our human and social condition (in a more ‘scientific’, kind of detached way, less ‘philosophical’ and ‘psychological’ than Musil, or, rather, in a different way, a way probably more ‘contemporary’ to ourselves than Musil can be today). The novel is located specifically into history, but it goes far beyond the common ‘historical novel.’ ( )

An enormous novel ostensibly written along the lines of Dostoevsky's own Demons. As with other Doderer novels, a huge canvas filled with multitudes of characters. It's on my list for a reread soon; notes on structure and theme forthcoming. ( )