The Confusions of Young Master Törless (Alma Classics): Robert Musil

The Confusions of Young Master Törless (Alma Classics): Robert Musil

by Robert Musil (Author), Translated by Christopher Moncrieff (Author)

Synopsis

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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Format: Paperback
Pages: 250
Edition: 1
Publisher: Alma Classics
Published: 20 Nov 2013

ISBN 10: 1847493548
ISBN 13: 9781847493545

Author Bio
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.