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Young Torless

by Musil, Robert

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ISBN 10
0394710150
ISBN 13
9780394710150
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New York, New York, USA: Pantheon Books, 1982. BI6 - A trade paperback withdrawn ex-library book in good+ condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with very minor overall shelf wear with some browning of the paper edges and yellowing of the paper plus there are the usual library stamps, marks, labels, and pocket on the spine, the copyright page, and the inside surface of the back cover plus there is a clear plastic lamination applied to the covers. Translated from the German by Eithne Wilkins and Ernst Kaiser. A novel about human corruption, and the interconnections between the will to power and the urge to submit. The story is set among a group of students at a military boarding school in Austria before the fFirst World War. The main character is a somewhat detached youth who, along with two other students, systematically persecute one of their fellow schoolmates, an essentially passive boy whose effeminate manner and complaisant behavior attract his tormentors' inclinations to debase themselves by torturing him. By the uathor of "A Man Withoug Qualities." 217p.. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

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Title
Young Torless
Author
Musil, Robert
Format/Binding
Paperback
Book Condition
Used - Good
Jacket Condition
No Jacket as Issued
ISBN 10
0394710150
ISBN 13
9780394710150
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Place of Publication
New York, New York, USA
Date Published
1982
Keywords
Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Literature Literary Novel Austria Hapsburgs Hapsburg Empire Power Physical Abuse Emotional Abuse SExual Abuse Student Schoolmates Human Corruption Will Power Will to Power Urge Submit German Literature Wilkins Eith
Bookseller catalogs
Literature / Translations; Literature / German Literature; Literature / Authors K-P;
Size
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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