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The confusions of young Törless / Robert Musil ; translated by Mike Mitchell ; with an introduction and notes by Ritchie Robertson.
- Title
- The confusions of young Törless / Robert Musil ; translated by Mike Mitchell ; with an introduction and notes by Ritchie Robertson.
- Author
- Musil, Robert, 1880-1942
- Publication
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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- Description
- xxxix, 168 p.; 20 cm.
- Summary
- As the nineteenth century draws to an end, young Törless 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.
- Series Statement
- Oxford World's classics
- Uniform Title
- Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törless. English
- Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
- Alternative Title
- Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törless.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- Belletristische Darstellung
- Erzählende Literatur: Hauptwerk vor 1945
- Fiction.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- A chronology of Rubert Musil -- The confusions of young Törless.
- ISBN
- 9780199669400 (pbk.)
- 0199669406 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2013938926
- OCLC
- 855046122
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library