The Confusions of Young Master Toerless (Paperback)

Musil's limpid, psychological evocation of adolescent sexuality and its often sadistic eroticism which anticipates the carnage of both World Wars. As the nineteenth century draws to an end, young Toerless 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.

General

Imprint:	Alma Classics
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2013
First published:	2013
Authors:	Robert Musil
Translators:	Christopher Moncrieff
Dimensions:	198 x 128 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	250
ISBN-13:	978-1-84749-354-5
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > General Books > Fiction > Special features > Classic fiction
LSN:	1-84749-354-8
Barcode:	9781847493545

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