Robert Musil (1880โ1942), born in Vienna, was trained as a mathematician, behavioral psychologist, engineer, and philosopher. During WWI, he served as an officer in the Austrian Army on the Italian front. He died exiled and impoverished in Switzerland in 1942. Author of The Man Without Qualities, Young Tรถrless, and Five Women, Musil is one of the towering pillars of twentieth-century modernism.