question: Which of these authors is known for his unfinished novel "The Man Without Qualities," Robert Musil or Boris Vian?
answer: Robert Musil
context: Title: The Man Without Qualities
  Passage: The Man Without Qualities (1930–43; German: "Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften") is an unfinished modernist novel in three volumes and various drafts, by the late Austrian writer Robert Musil.  It is typically considered to be one of the most significant European novels of the twentieth century.
  Title: Polirom
  Passage: Polirom or Editura Polirom ("Polirom" Publishing House) is a Romanian publishing house with a tradition of publishing classics of international literature and also various titles in the fields of social sciences, such as psychology, sociology and anthropology.  The company was founded in February 1995.  The first title published by Polirom was "For Europe".  In 2008, the company published 700 new titles, in a range of over 70 collections ranging from self-help to modern classics such as Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities and from text books to "chick-lit".
  Title: Heartsnatcher
  Passage: Heartsnatcher (French: L'Arrache-cœur ) is a 1953 novel by the French writer Boris Vian.  It tells the story of a psychoanalyst who is newly arrived in a very superstitious village where absurd events occur.
  Title: Turmoil in the Swaths
  Passage: Turmoil in the Swaths (French: Trouble dans les andains ) is a novel by the French writer Boris Vian.  It was published posthumously by La Jeune Parque in 1966.
  Title: Froth on the Daydream
  Passage: Froth on the Daydream (French: L'Écume des jours ; literally: ""The Foam of Days"") is a 1947 novel by the French author Boris Vian.  Though told in a linear style, the novel concerns multiple plot lines, including the love stories of two couples, talking mice, and a man who ages years in a week.  The novel uses a surrealist style.  Though not the focus of the novel, one of these plot lines concerns a man who marries a woman who develops an illness that can only be treated by surrounding her with flowers.
  Title: The Red Grass
  Passage: The Red Grass (French: L'Herbe rouge ) is a 1950 novel by the French writer Boris Vian, published by Éditions Toutain.
  Title: Boris Vian
  Passage: Boris Vian (] ; 10 March 1920 – 23 June 1959) was a French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer.  He is best remembered today for his novels.  Those published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan were bizarre parodies of criminal fiction, highly controversial at the time of their release.
  Title: Robert Musil
  Passage: Robert Musil (] or [ˈmuːsɪl] ; 6 November 1880 – 15 April 1942) was an Austrian philosophical writer.  His unfinished novel "The Man Without Qualities" (German: "Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften" ) is generally considered to be one of the most important and influential modernist novels.
  Title: The Dead All Have the Same Skin
  Passage: The Dead All Have the Same Skin (French: Les morts ont tous la même peau ) is a 1947 crime novel by the French writer Boris Vian.  It tells the story of a mixed Black-White American, who manages to have a career in "white society" without anyone knowing of his origin; when his black half-brother turns up and tries to blackmail him by threatening to reveal his origin, his life turns into a downward spiral of violence.  It was the second book published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan, after "I Spit on Your Graves" from 1946.
  Title: Autumn in Peking
  Passage: Autumn in Peking (French: L'Automne à Pékin ) is a 1947 novel by the French writer Boris Vian.  It was published by Jean d’Halluin’s Éditions du Scorpion in 1947 with a second edition (revised by the author) at Éditions de Minuit in 1956 which had a drawing by Mose on the cover.  It was reissued in 1963 and reprinted a number of times.  The French critic Bruno Maillé has described it as a surrealist novel, something the surrealists themselves refuted, however Alistair Rolls in his study of "intertextuality in four novels of Boris Vian" argues the novel contains many surrealist elements and techniques.  The Peking (or Beijing) of the title is not literal; if anywhere the location of the novel’s main action is a “dream-desert” allowing Vian to play with visual extremes of searing light and heat as well as intense blackness and night.  It takes place in an imaginary desert called Exopotamie where a train station and a railway line are under construction.  Pestereaux argued that Peking was simply slang for Paris; an allegory of Paris post WW2 reconstruction and the insanity of its beureaucracy.
citations: Boris Vian Robert Musil