The Confusions of Young Trless (riverrun editions)

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.

About the author

Robert Musil (6 November 1880 - 15 April 1942) was an Austrian philosophical writer.

Jeremy Adler is a Senior Research Fellow and Professor Emeritus at King's College London. He has published widely on German and Comparative Literature. His Goethe. A Critical Life was published last year.

Summary

One of the great short novels of the early twentieth century. It is a novel of youth; a novel of growing up; and it casts an unflinching look at the world.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Musil
• Assisted by: Ernst Kaiser (Translation), Kaiser Ernst (Translation), Eithne Wilkins (Translation), Wilkins Eithne (Translation)
• Publisher: Riverrun
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 11.11.2021
• EAN: 9781529405507
• ISBN: 978-1-5294-0550-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 22 mm
• Series: riverrun editions
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, FICTION / Classics, Fiction in translation, Fiction: general and literary, classic fiction; Austrian military; prizewinning; revered