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The Confusions of Young Törless

Robert Musil

Paperback | Pages: 176 pages

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Title	:	The Confusions of Young Törless
Author	:	Robert Musil
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 176 pages
Published	:	September 27th 2001 by Penguin (first published 1906)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. European Literature. German Literature

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Like his contemporary and rival Sigmund Freud, Robert Musil boldly explored the dark, irrational undercurrents of humanity. The Confusions of Young Törless, 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 breakdown 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. More than a century later, Musil's first novel still retains its shocking, prophetic power.

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Original Title:	Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß
ISBN:	0142180009 (ISBN13: 9780142180006)
Edition Language:	English

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--That moment when you realize that having your head in the clouds is not always a good thing. In short, the "confusions" of Young Torless are the confusions of all who wonder how the seemingly rational person can become embroiled in the heinous. But also-- "And suddenly--and it seemed to him as if it had happened for the very first time--Torless became aware of how incredibly high the sky was. It was almost a shock. Straight above him, shining between the clouds, was a small, blue hole,

Törless is confused. Indeed, the title of this book, in some editions (not mine), is The Confusions of Young Törless. Skimming the plot surface of this book, Törless is a student in an Austrian military school. Two student-friends of Törless find out that yet another student, Basini, has been stealing small amounts of money. They proceed to sadistically, homosexually torture him. Törless finds himself aroused, and, thus, confused.Törless finds himself in ...a frequent sudden lassitude ... with

(I think I actually preferred this to the Man without Qualities. Teenager discovering sex, Kant, and imaginary numbers. Let's not pretend we ever really get past the mess of puberty. I hope to re-read it in the medium term.)

The New York Times Book Review was supposed to have said that this novel, published in 1906, was a chilling foreshadowing of the coming of Nazism. That, I feel, was a bit of a stretch.Four young men in an all-boys military school in Austria, maybe sometime the start of 20th century. Torless, with his heavy philosophical musings, and around whom the story is built; Basini, weak and victimized; Beineberg, the mad (silly, to me) mystic; and Reiting, the manipulator who revels on torture. At the

Decadent Austro-Hungarian kids torture and sodomize a classmate as a rehearsal of the upper-class adulthood awaiting them out of the military academy.Physical and psychological harassment! A crumbling empire! Pre-nazi post-sadism galore! Depravity! Pseudo-Freudian expressionism! The chance to hear the bookshop assistant's ooohs and aaahs as you put a book by Robert Musil on the counter! No need to say I licked my lips as soon as I read the blurb. Boy, I must have looked like Wile E. Coyote

★★★☆☆ 3.25 stars

Such a generous subject but such a boring book. And now, as some1 around here said, I can reply to: "Have you read Musil's famous ?" with: "No, but I read his very first book. Have you?" :DI'm almost sure I would have enjoyed it better if it had been written in the 1st person (I even liked Zeno more while reading Torless). The poetic (sometimes pathetic) language lost me. And all those philosophical perorations! Coming of age was never duller! I choose The catcher in the rye and The adventures