Robert Musil - The Confusions of Young Törless

The literary debut of the Austrian philosophical novelist and essayist Robert Musil, first published in 1906. At a bleak, isolated military school on the fringes of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, four young cadets —Torless, Beineberg, Reiting and their victim Basini—rift even further away from their school- fellows into a private world of ritual, secrecy and torture. Story of a young disoriented man searching for moral values in society and their meaning for him.
Translated by Mike Mitchell.
Oxford University Press, 2014. Paperback 168 pages. 
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