Download or read book The Confusions of Young Törless (riverrun editions) written by Robert Musil and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Confusions of Young Torless is a taut, powerful depiction of teenage masculinity in this short novel set in an Austrian military academy. An unpopular boy is gradually bullied and humiliated by a coterie of better-off classmates until the almost unbearable conclusion. This was the work which made Musil's name and is his most popular work before his unfinished masterpiece, The Man Without Qualities.