The Confusions of Young Torless
Author(s): Robert Musil
As the nineteenth century draws to an end, young Torless is sent to a military boarding school for the sons of the nobility on the eastern outreaches of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Far from his comfortable, free-thinking bourgeois home and left to his own devices, he experiences the joy, pain and self-doubt of adolescence. He is confronted with desire and love, but also his own cruelty, as he finds himself participating in his fellow pupils' bullying campaigns. A dark Bildungsroman which shocked its readership at the time, Robert Musil's first novel is a fresco of psychoanalysis, philosophy, eroticism, snobbery, sado-masochism and schoolboy humour, a hothouse of alternately repressed and unchained desires that prefigure the carnage of both World Wars.
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Robert Musil (1882 - 1942) was an Austrian writer whose unfinished novel 'The Man without Qualities' is now considered one of the most important works of European Modernism.
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- : Alma Books Ltd
- : Alma Classics
- : 0.19
- : 31 October 2013
- : .56 Inches X 5.23 Inches X 7.81 Inches
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 March 2014
- : books
Special Fields
- : Robert Musil
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : English
- : 250