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The Man Without Qualities

After Robert Musil
Graphic Novel
Suhrkamp | Insel
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Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Italy (Edizioni Clichy), Czech Republic (Archa)


The Man Without Qualities / Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften
After Robert Musil
Graphic Novel
Musil’s monumental work – from the master of minimalism

By one of the most famous German-language cartoonists
There are books that a person just has to have read. We can know this, and still recoil from them. These books seem too massive, too challenging, too awe-inspiring. Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities is such a colossal novel: one greets it dutifully, in order to beat a lightning-fast retreat. But whoever has a go at this book will be immediately surprised at how light and entertaining it is to read, and wonder why he passed it up for so long.

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There are books that a person just has to have read. We can know this, and still recoil from them. These books seem too massive, too challenging, too awe-inspiring. Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities is such a colossal novel: one greets it dutifully, in order to beat a lightning-fast retreat. But whoever has a go at this book will be immediately surprised at how light and entertaining it is to read, and wonder why he passed it up for so long.

When such a ›daring‹ reader also happens to be an exceptionally gifted graphic artist like Nicolas Mahler, whose spare drawings and laconic humor has made him an »international star of the graphic art scene« (arte), the encounter with Musil’s once-a-century novel gives way to something wholly its own: a congenial adaptation that is equally profound as it is lighthearted.

»The way Nicholas Mahler makes them, comics could hardly be funnier. They are as unmistakable in their minimalist illustrations as they are in the richness of their content.« Andreas Platthaus, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

»The way Nicholas Mahler makes them, comics could hardly be funnier. They are as unmistakable in their minimalist illustrations as they are in the richness of their content.« Andreas Platthaus, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

2013, 156 pages

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Nicolas Mahler, born in 1969, lives in Vienna where he works as a comic artist and illustrator. His comic strips and cartoons have been published by newspapers and magazines such as DIE ZEIT, NZZ am Sonntag, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung and Titanic. He has received numerous awards for his extensive oeuvre, including the Max-und-Moritz Prize for Best German-Language Comic Artist in 2010 and the Preis der Literaturhäuser in 2015 and the Sondermann Prize in 2019.

Nicolas Mahler, born in 1969, lives in Vienna where he works as a comic artist and illustrator. His comic strips and cartoons have been published...


OTHER PUBLICATIONS

My Therapist is a Psycho
Year of Publication: 2024
Nicolas MahlerYear of Publication: 2024
For people plagued by obsessions, madness, nightmares, or a fear of commitment, sometimes, chaos therapy, light therapy, happiness training or aromatherapy can help. But what should you do when all these fail? That leaves only one remedy: the cartoons of Nicolas Mahler! They’re definitely cheaper and easier to use. It certainly can’t hurt to give them a try.
Completely Kafka
Year of Publication: 2023
Nicolas MahlerYear of Publication: 2023

Franz Kafka not only wrote prose, he was also passionate about drawing: »Did you know I was once a great drawer,« he wrote about his artistic ambitions, half ironic, half proud, to his...

Rights sold to:

English world rights (Pushkin Press), Spanish world rights (Salamandra), France (L'Association), Italy (Clichy), Czech Republic (Argo)

Black Mirrors
Year of Publication: 2021
Nicolas Mahler, Arno SchmidtYear of Publication: 2021
The summer of 1960. A man is cycling through a ghostly landscape. A nuclear strike five years earlier has depopulated the earth, and quite thoroughly at that. The man forages in the deserted villages...
Rights sold to:

Suhrkamp represents the rights for Nicolas Mahler’s contribution to the volume. The underlying rights to the work by Arno Schmidt are represented by the Arno Schmidt Foundation.
Thomas Bernhard
Year of Publication: 2021
Nicolas MahlerYear of Publication: 2021

»Thomas Bernhard is born in Heerlen (the Netherlands) on February 9, 1931. The afterbirth has the shape of Austria.« – thus begins Bernhard’s biography as drawn by comic artist Nicolas Mahler.


The grand master of minimalism, who has previously and »congenially« adapted Bernhard’s Old Masters and The World-Fixer, takes readers on a wickedly funny tour...

Ulysses
Year of Publication: 2020
Nicolas MahlerYear of Publication: 2020

Dublin, June 16, 1904: a day in the life of the advertising agent Leopold Bloom and the sensations of the ordinary – James Joyce has created a maximal book from a minimum of matter:...

Rights sold to:

English world rights (Seagull), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon), France (L’Association)

The Little ABC of Survival
Year of Publication: 2018
Nicolas MahlerYear of Publication: 2018

Sometimes, it just hits you and you don’t even know why. That’s when life seems nothing but chaotic, devastating and confusing. Fighting this, however, is profoundly pointless – and anything but funny. If, yet again, you’ve rushed into one of those crises at full throttle and can’t find your way out, you should take a look at The Little ABC of Survival. From »Age« to »Work«, from...

In Search Of Lost Time. Adapted from Marcel Proust
Year of Publication: 2017
Nicolas MahlerYear of Publication: 2017

Marcel Proust’s Recherche is one of the most important French novels, if not the most important – reading it can be life changing. Nicolas Mahler’s comic is not a retelling, not a...

Rights sold to:

English world rights (Seagull), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon)

Party Fun With Kant
Year of Publication: 2015
Nicolas MahlerYear of Publication: 2015
Austria’s best-known comic artist, Nicolas Mahler, presents hitherto unknown scenes from the lives of twenty-two of the world’s most famous philosophers: we go to a party with Kant, visit an art...
Rights sold to:

English world rights (Seagull), Chinese simplex rights (Horizon)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Czech Republic (Archa)

Lulu and the Black Square
Year of Publication: 2014
Nicolas MahlerYear of Publication: 2014

In his brilliant new graphic novel Nicolas Mahler purges Frank Wedekind’s tragedies Earth Spirit und Pandora’s Box and creates a black comedy about the corporeality of women, the possessive mentality of men, and Kazimir Malevich’s Black Square.


Frank Wedekind’s man-eating Lulu once again finds herself in a Suprematist’s atelier. Struggling back and...

The World-Fixer
Year of Publication: 2014
Nicolas MahlerYear of Publication: 2014
An elderly scholar, paralysed and hard of hearing, a philosopher and petty tyrant, who is set to receive an honorary doctorate for his barely comprehensible »Treatise for the Improvement of the...
Rights sold to:

English world rights (Seagull), Czech Republic (Archa)

Poems
Year of Publication: 2013
Nicolas MahlerYear of Publication: 2013
A philosophy of life presented in image-poems about the absurdity of existence

Poems worthy of Beckett, Cioran and Wittgenstein’s praise

Written by the »existentialist...
Rights sold to:

English world rights (Seagull), Czech Republic (Archa)

Alice in Sussex
Year of Publication: 2013
Nicolas MahlerYear of Publication: 2013
Alice is back in Wonderland. Here she meets the White Rabbit, who leads her down into his rabbit hole in search of an illustrated edition of H. C. Artmann’s Frankenstein in Sussex. Over the...
Rights sold to:

English world rights (Seagull), Spanish world rights (Salamandra), Russia (Boomkniga), Slovenia (VigeVageKnjige)

Old Masters
Year of Publication: 2011
Nicolas MahlerYear of Publication: 2011
The devilishly funny comedy by Thomas Bernhard illustrated from one of the most internationally known German-language cartoonists.


Rights sold to:

English world rights (Seagull), France (L'Association), Serbia (Bulevar)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spanish world rights (Sinsentido), Poland (Proszynski), Czech Republic (Archa)


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