„Es war ein schöner Augusttag des Jahres 1913.“ Lufttemperatur und gesellschaftliche Umbruchssituation in Robert Musils „Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften”

In Robert Musil’s fragmentary novel, The Man Without Qualities, history and poetics connect in a very potent manner. A salient example of this is the famous sentence, “It was a fine day in August 1913”, where societal upheaval is portrayed. Meteorological information contrasts and corresponds with scien-tific facts and documented historical events. Above all, it is Musil’s ironic style which brings the text’s literary power of commentary to the fore.