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The Confusions of Young Törless (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

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The Confusions of Young Törless (German: Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß), or Young Törless, is the literary debut of the Austrian philosophical novelist and essayist Robert Musil, first published in 1906. Musil's novel is ostensibly a Bildungsroman, a story of a young disoriented man searching for moral values in society and their meaning for him.

The expressionistic novel, based on Musil's personal experiences at a boarding school in Hranice (in Austria-Hungary, now in the Czech Republic) was written according to Musil "because of boredom". In later life, however, Musil denied that the novel was about youthful experiences of his own. Due to its explicit sexual content, the novel at first caused a scandal among the reading public and the authorities of Austria-Hungary.

Later, various prefigurings of Fascism were identified in the text, including the characters of Beineberg and Reiting, who seem to be orderly pupils by day but shamelessly abuse their classmate psychologically, physically and sexually by night.

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Penguin Classics
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Cover of: The Confusions of Young Törless (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
The Confusions of Young Törless (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
August 28, 2001, Penguin Classics
Cover of: Il giovane Törless
Il giovane Törless
1995, Newton Compton
in Italian - Ed. integrale.
Cover of: Young Törless
Young Törless
1982, Pantheon Books
Cover of: Young Törless
Young Törless
1982, Pantheon Books, Pantheon
in English
Cover of: Young Törless
Young Törless
1982, Pantheon Books
in English - 1st Pantheon paperback ed.
Cover of: Young Törless
Young Törless
1978, Pocket books
in English
Cover of: Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törless
Cover of: Young Törless
Young Törless
1955, Secker & Warburg
in English
Cover of: Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törless
Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törless
1911, Georg Müller
in German - 3. aufl.
Cover of: Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törless
Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törless
Publisher unknown
hardcover

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"A little station on the stretch leading towards Russia."

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Open Library
OL7360395M
ISBN 10
0142180009
ISBN 13
9780142180006
OCLC/WorldCat
46959670
Library Thing
3574
Goodreads
29718

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