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The Confusions of Young Torless (Penguin 20th Century Classics) Book

Paperback. Pub Date: 2001 08 Pages: 176 Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Musil Belongs In The COMPANY of Joyce and Proust and Kafka (The New Republic) Like his Contemporary and Rival of Sigmund Freud Robert Musil boldly Explored the dark. irrational undercurrents of humanity. The Confusions of Young Trless. published in 1906 while he was a student. uncovers the bullying. snobbery. and vicious homoerotic violence at an elite boys academy. Unsparingly honest in its depiction of the author's tangled feelings about his mother. other women. and male bonding. it also vividly illustrates the crisis of a whole society. where the eakdown of traditional values ??and the cult of pitiless masculine strength were soon to lead to the cataclysm of the First World War and the rise of fascism. A century later. Musil's first novel still retains its shocking. prophetic power.Read More

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  • Penguin

    At a bleak, isolated military school on the fringes of the Austro- Hungarian Empire, four young cadets - Torless, Beineberg, Reiting and their victim Basini - drift even further away from their school- fellows into a private world of ritual, secrecy and torture. First published in 1906.

  • Blackwell

    Like his contemporary and rival Sigmund Freud, Robert Musil boldly explored the dark, irrational undercurrents beneath the calm surface of bourgeois life. The Confusions of Young Torless, published while he was a student, uncovers the bullying...

  • 0142180009
  • 9780142180006
  • Robert Musil
  • 27 September 2001
  • Penguin
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 176
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