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Blurb: “Robert Musil - Young Torless
"... there are two worlds within him [Törless] corresponding to two worlds without him: a quotidian existence of rational, routine activity... and also a dark, exciting realm of violent, often destructive... impulses and adventures. Which is more real? Which is to be espoused?" Thus John Simon states the theme which animates this remarkable novel of sexual and intellectual awakening.
Set within the confines of a military boarding school, the book has as its center the shifting, tension-ridden relationship of Törless and three fellow students. With near-hallucinatory vividness, the intense conflicts and fevered emotions of adolescence are evoked; yet always present is a note of cool, analytic detachment, tracing the pattern of future destiny as it emerges from this atmosphere of mingled youthful idealism and brutal sadism, rigorous discipline and perverse sensuality. A work of superb art and prophetic psychological insight, Young Törless offers a memorable introduction to a writer who has come to be recognized as one of the singular talents of the century.
It is a novel, as John Simon writes,
"as unique in our day. as it was sixty years ago."
With an Afterword by John Simon”