The Confusions of Young Torless (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Musil, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141184116 ISBN 13: 9780141184111

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2001

Synopsis

'A short and sharp book. Also a terrifying one.' THE TIMES At a bleak, isolated military school on the fringes of the Austro-Hungarian Empire four young cadets - Torless, Beineberg, Reiting and their victim Basini - drift ever further away fromthe school-fellows into a private world of ritual, secrecy and torture. Since its first publication in German in 1906 Musil's YOUNG TORLESS has been acclaimed as a classic account of adolescence and authoritarianism. This new translation allows a fresh generation of English readers to appreciate its extraordinary nature.

About this title

Synopsis:

At a bleak, isolated military school on the fringes of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, four young cadets - Torless, Beineberg, Reiting and their victim Basini - drift even further away from their school- fellows into a private world of ritual, secrecy and torture. First published in 1906.

About the Author:

ROBERT MUSIL is principally known in English as the author of THE MAN WITHOUT QUALITIES, FIVE WOMEN, THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF A LIVING AUTHOR and THE CONFUSIONS OF YOUNG TORLESS.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0141184116
• ISBN 13: 9780141184111
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176