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ISBN: 9780142180006 - The Confusions of Young Torless
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The Confusions of Young Torless

Robert Musil

ISBN: 9780142180006
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd


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Like his contemporary and rival Sigmund Freud, Robert Musil boldly explored the dark, irrational undercurrents beneath the calm surface of bourgeois life…

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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. This title is first published in 1906.
 
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