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The Confusions of Young Törless (German: Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß), or Young Törless, is the literary debut of the Austrian philosophical novelist and essayist Robert Musil, first published in 1906. Musil's novel is ostensibly a Bildungsroman, a story of a young disoriented man searching for moral values in society and their meaning for him.
The expressionistic novel, based on Musil's personal experiences at a boarding school in Hranice (in Austria-Hungary, now in the Czech Republic) was written according to Musil "because of boredom". In later life, however, Musil denied that the novel was about youthful experiences of his own. Due to its explicit sexual content, the novel at first caused a scandal among the reading public and the authorities of Austria-Hungary.
Later, various prefigurings of Fascism were identified in the text, including the characters of Beineberg and Reiting, who seem to be orderly pupils by day but shamelessly abuse their classmate psychologically, physically and sexually by night.
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Fiction, Teenage boys, Sexuality, Military education, Boys' schools, Gay youth, Boarding schools, Gangs, Interpersonal relations, Teenage boys in fiction, Austria in fiction, Military education in fiction, Gangs in fiction, Boarding schools in fiction, Boys' schools in fiction, Gay youth in fiction, Adolescence, Authoritarianism, Fiction, general, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, erotica, general, LGBTQ erotica, LGBTQ novels before Stonewall, Adolescence--fiction, Authoritarianism--fiction, Military education--fiction, Pt2625.u8 v413 2001, 833/.912Places
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Young Törless
1982, Pantheon Books
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This translation originally published, London: Secker and Warburg, 1955. Originally publishedas 'Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törless'. Wien (Vienna): Wiener Verlag, 1906.
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