by Robert Musil · Rowohlt Taschenbuch · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783499103001
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«Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß» is the psychological novel by Robert Musil, published by Rowohlt Taschenbuch in paperback (208 pages, in German).
Törleß is a sensitive young man who enters an Austro-Hungarian military boarding school. When some classmates catch another student stealing, they subject him to secret punishments and humiliations. Törleß, attracted and horrified, witnesses this abuse and struggles between complicity and conscience, in a portrait of puberty and cruelty.
First novel by Robert Musil, originally published in 1906. Number 10300 in the rororo Taschenbücher collection.
For those interested in German classics and coming-of-age stories, with a psychological look at adolescence and cruelty.
Robert Mathias Musil was an Austrian philosophical writer of novels, short stories and plays. His unfinished novel, The Man Without Qualities, is generally considered to be one of the most important and influential modernist novels. Musil published his first novel, The Confusions of Young Törless, in 1906.
