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The Confusions of Young Torless is a taut, powerful depiction of
teenage masculinity in this short novel set in an Austrian military
academy. An unpopular boy is gradually bullied and humiliated by a
coterie of better-off classmates until the almost unbearable
conclusion. This was the work which made Musil's name and is his
most popular work before his unfinished masterpiece, The Man
Without Qualities.
The stories here collected under the title Five Women combine two
different volumes. All together, these stories, each of which (as
the reader will guess) has a woman at the apparent centre of its
gaze, has the feel of a series study, or of a natural history,
though one performed in a strange and not entirely rational
laboratory, or field. The intensity in these stories derives in
part from looking at humans under the very ordinary extremities of
love and desire. Neither love, nor femininity, is the subject
matter so much as it is the medium. Translated by Eithne Wilkins
& Ernst Kaiser
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The Castle (Paperback, Reissue)
Franz Kafka; Translated by Willa Muir, Edwin Muir, Ernst Kaiser, Eithne Wilkins
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Discovery Miles 2 540
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'He is the greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke
or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in
comparison to him' Vladimir Nabokov The story of K. and his arrival
in a village where he is never accepted, and his relentless,
unavailing struggle with authority in order to gain entrance to the
castle that seems to rule it. K.'s isolation and perplexity, his
begging for the approval of elusive and anonymous powers,
epitomises Kafka's vision of twentieth-century alienation and
anxiety.
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