Categorii: Neclsificat
Limba: Engleza
Data publicării: 2013
Editura: Alma Classics
Tip copertă: Paperback
Nr Pag: 250
Traducatori: Christopher Moncrieff
ISBN: 9781847493545
Dimensiuni: l: 13.2cm | H: 19.5cm | 1.5cm | 188g
As the nineteenth century draws to an end, young Törless is sent to a military boarding school for the sons of the nobility on the eastern outreaches of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Far from his comfortable, free-thinking bourgeois home and left to his own devices, he experiences the joy, pain and self-doubt of adolescence. He is confronted with desire and love, but also his own cruelty, as he finds himself participating in his fellow pupils’ bullying campaigns.
A dark Bildungsroman which shocked its readership at the time, Robert Musil’s first novel is a fresco of psychoanalysis, philosophy, eroticism, snobbery, sado-masochism and schoolboy humour, a hothouse of alternately repressed and unchained desires that prefigures the carnage of both World Wars.