'between the life we live and the life we feel...there is the invisible border, like a narrow gate' Set in a boarding school in a remote area of the Habsburg Empire at the turn of the last century, The Confusions of Young Torless is an intense study of an adolescent's psychological development as he struggles to come to terms with his conflicting emotions. Through his relationship with two other boys Torless is led into sadistic and sexual encounters with a third pupil which both repel and fascinate him. Estranged from everyday life, Torless gradually learns to accept his experiences and...
'between the life we live and the life we feel...there is the invisible border, like a narrow gate' Set in a boarding school in a remote area of t...
Musil's limpid, psychological evocation of adolescent sexuality and its often sadistic eroticism which anticipates the carnage of both World Wars.
As the nineteenth century draws to an end, young Torless is sent to a military boarding school for the sons of the nobility on the eastern outreaches of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Far from his comfortable, free-thinking bourgeois home and left to his own devices, he experiences the joy, pain and self-doubt of adolescence. He is confronted with desire and love, but also his own cruelty, as he finds himself participating in his fellow...
Musil's limpid, psychological evocation of adolescent sexuality and its often sadistic eroticism which anticipates the carnage of both World Wars.<...
-Es war ihr seither, als sei einer gekommen, der das besa, was ihr fehlte, und ginge damit still durch die verdammernde Einode ihres Lebens.- Zwei Geschichten, zwei Facetten der Leidenschaft; ein groer Erzahler: Robert Musil (1880 -1942), vor allem bekannt fur seine Romane, gewahrt in seinen Erzahlungen einen Einblick in das unergrundliche Wesen der Liebe - und in die Seelen derer, von denen sie Besitz ergriffen hat.
-Es war ihr seither, als sei einer gekommen, der das besa, was ihr fehlte, und ginge damit still durch die verdammernde Einode ihres Lebens.- Zwei Ges...
