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Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törless

  • Robert Musil

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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.

Genres

  • 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/.912
  • Long Now Manual for Civilization
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About the author

  • Robert Musil

    1880 - 1942

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    10 ratings · 214 works

Editions

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    Penguin Classics

    August 28, 2001

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    Penguin Books

    January 3, 2001

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    Oxford University Press

    2014

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    57. Auflage

    Rowohlt

    2007-09

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    [1. Auflage]

    Rowohlt

    1959-03

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    FISCHER Taschenbuch

    Jun 22, 2017

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    Outlook Verlag

    Jul 16, 2020

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    Originalausgabe

    Suhrkamp

    Apr 15, 2013

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    Suhrkamp

    1975

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    Secker & Warburg

    1955

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    Ungekürzte Ausgabe, 101.-115. Tausend: Juli 1966

    Rowohlt

    1966-07

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    Wien

    1906

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    Pocket

    July 1, 1978

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    Signet / The New American Library

    1964-09-01

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    Quercus

    2021

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    Penguin Publishing Group

    1999

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    Noonday Press

    1955

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    Signet Classics

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    Penguin Books

    2001

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    Penguin Books

    2001

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    Independently Published

    2019

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    Independently Published

    2019

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    Rowohlt Verlag

    1971

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    Independently Published

    2021

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    Rowohlt

    1959

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    Independently Published

    2021

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    Rowohlt

    1962

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    Independently Published

    2021

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    Rowohlt

    1969

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    Bange C. GmbH

    Jan 01, 2009

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    Rowohlt

    1978

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    Panther

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    New American Library

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    Independently Published

    2019

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    Independently Published

    2019

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    Rowohlt

    1978

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    Pantheon

    1955

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    Independently Published

    2019

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    Rowohlt

    1960

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    Noonday Press

    1955

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    54. Aufl.

    Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag

    2005

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    Pan Books

    1987

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    E. Rowohlt Verlag

    1931

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    Secker & Warburg

    1955

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    Reclam, Reclam Philipp Jun.

    2013

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    3. aufl.

    Georg Müller

    1911

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    Rowohlt

    1966-01-01

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    Suhrkamp

    1975

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    Rowoh

    1978