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The Confusions of Young Törless (riverrun editions)

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11th November 2021

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Selected: Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781529405507

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The Confusions of Young Torless is a taut, powerful depiction of teenage masculinity in this short novel set in an Austrian military academy. An unpopular boy is gradually bullied and humiliated by a coterie of better-off classmates until the almost unbearable conclusion. This was the work which made Musil’s name and is his most popular work before his unfinished masterpiece, The Man Without Qualities.