The confusions of young Törless / Robert Musil ; translated by Mike Mitchell ; with an introduction and notes by Ritchie Robertson.

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Musil, Robert, 1880-1942 [Browse]
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Book
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English
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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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xxxix, 168 p. ; 20 cm.

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    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.
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    Includes bibliographical references.
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    Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
    Contents
    • A chronology of Rubert Musil
    • The confusions of young Törless.
    ISBN
    • 9780199669400 (pbk.)
    • 0199669406 (pbk.)
    LCCN
    ^^2013938926
    OCLC
    855046122
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    H - S
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