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THE CONFUSIONS OF YOUNG MASTER TORLESS
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| By: |
Robert Musil, Christopher Moncrieff (Trans) |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
1847493548 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781847493545 |
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| Publisher: |
ALMA BOOKS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
20 November, 2013 |
| Pages: |
250 |
| Translated from: |
German |
| Description: |
A new translation of Robert Musil's first novel, 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. |
| 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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UK |
| Imprint: |
Alma Classics |
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