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At a bleak, isolated military school on the fringes of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, four young cadets —Torless, Beineberg, Reiting and their victim Basini—rift even further away from their school- fellows into a private world of ritual, secrecy and torture.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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0142180009
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978-0142180006
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Penguin Classics
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2001/8/28
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英語
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12.7 x 1.27 x 19.81 cm
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176ページ
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Robert Musil (1880-1942) 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.

Shaun Whiteside’s translations include Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy and Musil’s The Confusions of Young Torlessfor Penguin Classics.

J. M. Coetzee was born in Cape Town, South Africa, on February 9, 1940, and studied first at Cape Town and later at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a Ph.D. degree in literature. In 1972 he returned to South Africa and joined the faculty of the University of Cape Town. His works of fiction include Dusklands, Waiting for the Barbarians, which won South Africa’s highest literary honor, the Central News Agency Literary Award, and The Life and Times of Michael K., for which Coetzee was awarded his first Booker Prize in 1983. He has also published a memoir, Boyhood: Scenes From a Provincial Life, and several essays collections. He has won many other literary prizes including the Lannan Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize and The Irish Times International Fiction Prize. In 1999 he again won Britain’s prestigious Booker Prize for Disgrace, becoming the first author to win the award twice in its 31-year history. In 2003, Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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出版社 ‏ : ‎ Penguin Classics (2001/8/28)
発売日 ‏ : ‎ 2001/8/28
言語 ‏ : ‎ 英語
ペーパーバック ‏ : ‎ 176ページ
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0142180009
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0142180006
寸法 ‏ : ‎ 12.7 x 1.27 x 19.81 cm

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はじめてＭＵＳＩＬの本に挑戦してみましたが、感想としては、難しいな、というところでした。題材自体は、世紀の変わり目の、オーストリア・ハンガリーのある名門ＢＯＡＲＤＩＮＧ　ＳＣＨＯＯＬでの少年同士のいじめと同性愛の経験という、良くある話題なのですが、話の展開の仕方が、なかなかスムーズについていけなかった。出版時には、かなりショッキングだったのでしょうけど、やっと、読みきったというのが正直な感想です。ドイツ語で読めば、このリズムが、また独特のリズムを持つのかもしれません。また同じような時代の作家としては、ＲＯＴＨがいるのですが、彼に比較しても、とっつきにくかったですね。わずか１４０ページの本ですので、皆さんも挑戦してみてください。

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This is a difficult read. I imagine that the original German is complex and the translation reflects that. Makes one think about the onerous task of the translator to translate quirky, complicated German into fluid English. Generally a good job with some bumpily translated passages. Dealing with adolescent sexual awakening, struggles with notions of Torless’ nascent homosexuality and the morals of being lead on by less sensitive friends into torturing a weaker fellow pupil.
I can vaguely remember the film made in the 1960s.

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"The Confusions of Young Törless" was Robert Musil's debut novel. It was published in 1906 but not without difficulties, on one hand it was because the author was unknown, but it also had something to do with the themes and the brutality present in the book. Törless, the protagonist, is a boy living in a military boarding-school on the outskirts of Austro-Hungarian Empire; there he witnesses, and takes part in, the systematic abuse of a fellow pupil. At the same time Törless is having an intellectual awakening that he can't quite understand; an inner change that is very real and yet defies uttering - there is, it seems, a distinction between the inner world and the outer.

Even though the book is relatively short, it is still dense and complex, but what strikes one as a reader is how utterly harsh it is, how inhumane many of the characters are and there is a reason for that for Musil's main preoccupation is to analyse human psychology via science and philosophy. In this case it is the psychology of young men in a closed environment. One could then ask oneself if it is the environment that forms and guides these kids to do what they do or if these actions stem from something more deeply rooted within them. This question will be brought up later in "The Man Without Qualities". And much like in the latter, Törless gives us an early view of the making of those coming fascist and dictators that would influence Europe for most of the twentieth century.

To say that "The Confusions of Young Törless" is about budding sexuality and/or homosexuality would be an overstatement, even though it seems that many readers focus primarily on these; but the sex in this work is not about a connection between two individuals, no, sex is a tool used by persons in a confined cosmos. Sex in "The Confusions of Young Törless" has more in common with its portrayal in the HBO series "Oz" than it has with your average coming-of-age story; it's about dominance, punishment and degradation, and the milieu that promotes these.

As said, it's a dense work, and an Amazon review might not be the best forum to discuss all of the themes, especially when so many subjects are being touched upon by the neutral narrator and the confused protagonist; subjects like: rationality versus irrationality, mathematics, the duality of experience and morality.

Törless might be the best place to start if one wants to become acquainted with Musil's works, especially if one wishes to, at one point, read Musil's magnum opus; "The Confusions of Young Törless" is the bridge between Harry Potter and "The Man Without Qualities".

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Robert Musil's "Confusions of Young Törless" was published in 1906, the twilight of 19th century certainties (Freud published "Studies in Hysteria" in 1895, "Interpretation of Dreams" in 1900; Franz Wedekind's "Spring Awakening" was published in 1890, first produced in 1906, and banned in 1908; Einstein's General Theory was less than a decade away), in Austria-Hungary, a semi-faux empire taking too long to rot away. The greatness of Musil's work lies in its distillation of the zeitgeist into a relatively simple narrative about an incident of abuse in a boys' academy. The novel, which at times becomes meditation, transcends time and place. It depicts how, not only children but adults deal with passion, knowledge, order and justice, while trying to grasp within themselves that which in themselves they can neither control nor fully understand (ergo the metaphoric use of discussions about imaginary numbers) finally resorting to such staples of orthodoxy as rationalization, dogma and discipline to avoid truth which subverts their sense of whole. Törless, his companions, his teachers and the school chaplain struggle in darkness with their own demons and limitations, deluding themselves as having been truly enlightened in some fashion by experience, whereas each in their own way, seeks only to quiet their own internal turmoil and restore comprehensible order. Törless comes closest to breaking free, but we are lead to believe his own pusillanimity and conformity win out in that nebulous future after the novel ends. (Maybe he becomes "a man without qualities"). Whatever else, the work is extremely ironic, nowhere more than in its title, as "Confusions" are not limited to Young Törless but to the whole world around him. Musil was 26 when it was published.

Sex is a pervasive and disruptive force throughout Musil's novel. At one point, Törless is sexually aroused when witnessing abuse. Beineberg, Reiting and Törless individually, albeit differently, each with their own motivation (which Musil develops with remarkable thoroughness and economy), use Basini sexually. Basini uses his sexuality to press his case with Törless; Törless rationalizes his own acquiescence. All four use the town whore. Part of Törless "confusions" is his intellectualization of his own sexual turbulence: does he act this or that way because what he thinks, or do his feelings shape his thoughts which then rationalize his actions? Is he truly in an intellectual quest or is that only an excuse to give in to sex, however convoluted? Musil does not pose questions of sexual identity, as perhaps would have been posed in an early 21st century work, but he seems to explicitly address the disruptive power of passion in humankind. Sexuality is pervasive and central to the novel.

Some have seen a premonition of Nazism in Musil's novel. The fact that Basini, a rather unsympathetic "victim," is taken to be a jew, contributes to this, though at the time, Dreyfusian France was probably more anti-Semitic than Austria-Hungary or Germany. In the event, it is difficult to divorce what we know of intervening history when reading a text written in German at the beginning of the 20th century. However, any such inference particularizes, indeed obscures meaning, deflects relevance and diminishes the work. What was true and relevant in the 1906 text remains true and relevant today. One of the consistently reliable themes in human history is how orthodoxy, as a governing principle in ordering human affairs, tends to fall apart, time and time again. Early in his life, Musil grasped that, as did Freud (we may be in a post-Freudian, clinically and therapeutically neo-chemical world but certainly the influence of his insights are still very much with us). "Confusion" can still be apt description for humankind: arguably, the delusions, contradictions, and self-righteousness in contemporary, reactionary, America provide a good example. In the end, there is a touch of smugness to the irony with which Young Törless concludes, a detachment, which translates as apprehensive harbinger of our expanding awareness of ourselves, of the power we have, what we can do, and of the absurdly infinite capacity and recondite ways we find to grant ourselves absolution. "Yes we can..." a frightening thought indeed.

Törless, his mates, Basini, the adults, all of us, need ethics, not Belief.

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Very interesting portrait of a young artist, realistic oftne brutal psychology and surprisingly candid about sexuality and power among young boys, for the period.

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An Austrian "Lord of the Flies"

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"The Confusions of Young Torless" reminds me of William Golding's "Lord of the Flies". Though I sometimes sympathize with "Young Torless", I like him much less than Stephen Dedalus of "Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce or Holden Caulfield of "Catcher in the Rye"by J.D. Salinger. There could be an affinity with John Knowles' "A Separate Peace". I do remember an atmosphere of violent cruelty and adolescent cowardice which binds "Torless" to both "Lord of the Flies" and "A Separate Peace". I admire all of these authors for focusing so acutely on the sensually disturbed adolescent male--spot-on each and every one of them!

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