The Confusion of Young Master Torless

A new translation of Robert Musil's first novel, a fresco of psychoanalysis, philosophy, eroticism, snobbery, sado-masochism and schoolboy humour, a hothouse of alternately repressed and unchained desires that prefigure the carnage of both World Wars.

About the author

Robert Musil

Summary

A new translation of Robert Musil's first novel, a fresco of psychoanalysis, philosophy, eroticism, snobbery, sado-masochism and schoolboy humour, a hothouse of alternately repressed and unchained desires that prefigure the carnage of both World Wars.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Musil
• Assisted by: Christopher Moncrieff (Translation)
• Publisher: Alma Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 20.11.2013
• EAN: 9781847493545
• ISBN: 978-1-84749-354-5
• No. of pages: 250
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 200 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Alma Classics; Alma Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction in translation, German Literature; Bildungsroman; adolescence