Young Torless

Name: Young Torless
Author: Robert Musil

by Robert Musil

Novella depicting a boy's confused awakening in an oppressive military boarding school

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Robert Musil

Austrian novelist whose unfinished masterwork The Man Without Qualities is considered one of the most important novels of the 20th century. His intellectually demanding fiction dissected the decline of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

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