The Confusions of Young Torless (Penguin Modern Classics) - Tapa blanda

'A short and sharp book. Also a terrifying one.' THE TIMES At a bleak, isolated military school on the fringes of the Austro-Hungarian Empire four young cadets - Torless, Beineberg, Reiting and their victim Basini - drift ever further away fromthe school-fellows into a private world of ritual, secrecy and torture. Since its first publication in German in 1906 Musil's YOUNG TORLESS has been acclaimed as a classic account of adolescence and authoritarianism. This new translation allows a fresh generation of English readers to appreciate its extraordinary nature.

ROBERT MUSIL is principally known in English as the author of THE MAN WITHOUT QUALITIES, FIVE WOMEN, THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF A LIVING AUTHOR and THE CONFUSIONS OF YOUNG TORLESS.