Robert Musil (1880-1942) began his military studies in 1892 and left them five years later. Some aspects of his life during these years in military academies became material for The Student Tribulations Törless (1906), his first novel. In 1898 he began his studies at the Polytechnic of Brünn, at the same time as his first literary attempts. Later (1903) studied Philosophy and experimental psychology in Berlin and in 1908 obtained doctorate in philosophy with a doctoral thesis on Contribution to the valuation of the theories of Mach (1908), but it does not enter in the higher education, path that seemed destined to him , But occupies diverse works that allow him to develop his literary activity.