Young Törless
Title | Young Törless PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Musil |
Publisher | Harvill Press |
Pages | 198 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | German fiction |
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Title | Young Törless PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Musil |
Publisher | Harvill Press |
Pages | 198 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | German fiction |
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Title | The Confusions of Young Torless PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Musil |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 2001-09-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101174102 |
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. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Title | The Confusions of Young Törless PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Musil |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0199669406 |
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 describe them with analytical precision.
Title | Agathe PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Musil |
Publisher | New York Review of Books |
Pages | 401 |
Release | 2019-12-17 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1681373831 |
From the author of 'A Man without Qualities,' a novel about spirituality in the modern world. Agathe is the sister of Ulrich, the restless and elusive “man without qualities” at the center of Robert Musil’s great, unfinished novel of the same name. For years Agathe and Ulrich have ignored each other, but when brother and sister find themselves reunited over the bier of their dead father, they are electrified. Each is the other’s spitting image, and Agathe, who has just separated from her husband, is even more defiant and inquiring than Ulrich. Beginning with a series of increasingly intense “holy conversations,” the two gradually enlarge the boundaries of sexuality, sensuality, identity, and understanding in pursuit of a new, true form of being that they are seeking to discover. Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities is perhaps the most profoundly exploratory and unsettling masterpiece of twentieth-century fiction. Agathe, or, The Forgotten Sister reveals with new clarity a particular dimension of this multidimensional book—the dimension that meant the most to Musil himself and that inspired some of his most searching writing. The outstanding translator Joel Agee captures the acuity, audacity, and unsettling poetry of a book that is meant to be nothing short of life-changing.
Title | Precision and Soul PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Musil |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 331 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0226554090 |
"We do not have too much intellect and too little soul, but too little precision in matters of the soul."—Robert Musil Best known as author of the novel The Man without Qualities, Robert Musil wrote these essays in Vienna and Berlin between 1911 and 1937. Offering a perspective on modern society and intellectual life, they are concerned with the crisis of modern culture as it manifests itself in science and mathematics, capitalism and nationalism, the changing roles of women and writers, and more. Writing to find his way in a world where moral systems everywhere were seemingly in decay, Musil strives to reconcile the ongoing conflict between functional relativism and the passionate search for ethical values. Robert Musil was born in 1880 and died in 1942. His first novel, Young Törless, is available in English. A new two-volume translation by Burton Pike and Sophie Wilkins of The Man without Qualities is forthcoming from Alfred A. Knopf. "Now we have these thirty-one invaluable and entertaining pieces, from an article on 'The Obscene and Pathological in Art' to the equally provocative talk 'On Stupidity,' which, with a new translation of The Man without Qualities forthcoming . . . amount to a literary event for the reader of English comparable to Constance Garnett's massive translation of Chekhov's stories."—Joseph Coates, Chicago Tribune "Musil is one of the few great moderns, one of the handful who ventured to confront the issues that shape and define our time. . . . He has a range and a striking capacity every bit as great as that of Mann, Joyce, or Beckett."—Boston Review "These essays are crucial in understanding a writer and critic whose lifelong task was an attempt to resolve the dichotomy between the precision of scientific form and the soul—the matter of life and art."—Choice
Title | The Enthusiasts PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Musil |
Publisher | AJ Publishing Company |
Pages | 114 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
A philisophical erotic comedy of ideas in which the old world is threatened by new ideas of sexual freedom and scientific scepticism.
Title | The Confusions of Young Törless (riverrun editions) PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Musil |
Publisher | Hachette UK |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 2021-11-11 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1529405513 |
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.