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Young Torless (Paperback)
by Robert Musil (Author)
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Text: English, German (translation)
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  • Paperback: 217 pages
  • Publisher: Pantheon; 1st Pantheon paperback ed edition (February 12, 1982)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0394710150
  • ISBN-13: 978-0394710150
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars 2 customer reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,368,748 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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5.0 out of 5 stars brilliant, May 19, 2000
By Mark Heasley (New York City) - See all my reviews
wow.

this book gave me the creepers. i read this short novel in a class on existential philosophy, and it's the only piece except for sartre's nausea that has stuck with me all these years.

without revealing too much, the plot revolves around several young boys at a boarding school who torture a fellow student-- to see what will happen in a philosophical sort of way. disturbing, haunting, suspenseful, beautiful, profound.

not for the faint of heart.

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3.0 out of 5 stars A dark and disturbing look at adolescence, February 20, 2005
Young Torless and his classmates study at a private boys' school in Austria. He feels somewhat apart from the rest of his classmates, wondering what his place in the scheme of things is. Then, two of his "friends" accuse another classmate of scheming and thievery, but instead of reporting it, they decide to take matters into their own hands. Torless witnesses the sexual degradations through which the accused is placed, which only heightens Torless' need to understand things. Unwittingly, he finds himself physically drawn to the accused boy, something which he is unable to comprehend but against which he is powerless.

A dark and disturbing look at how adolescents learn about their place in the world through power, brutality and sexuality. I was confused by parts of it, as the author threw in much psychoanalysis and delving into Kant which made it difficult to follow the story, reading more along the lines of an essay at times. The ending is dissatisfying and doesn't give any clear solution.