by Robert Musil · Diario El País · tapa dura · ISBN 9788496246027
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«Las tribulaciones del estudiante Törless» is the novel by Robert Musil published in 2003 by Diario El País in hardcover (235 pages, in Spanish).
Young Törless enters a military academy housed in a gloomy castle, where aristocratic discipline and relations among cadets confront him with cruelty, sexuality, and unanswerable dilemmas. The novel portrays the awakening of consciousness, alienation, and identity in a militaristic society in transformation.
Work originally published in 1906 as Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß; the translation is by Roberto Bixio and Feliu Formosa, in the Clásicos del siglo XX collection (no. 40).
For readers of Central European literary classics and coming-of-age novels about adolescent awakening.
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.
