Young Törless | 
the book that make me,love all books or essay of robert musil.
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the book that make me,love all books or essay of robert musil.
This is probably the last book I'll ever read in a state of despair.
so-soThis was a book about toxic masculinity and militarism and the seeds of fascism. The author buried the lede so badly, with his endless discourses on Törless' intellectual angst, that I wonder if it wasn't purposeful; like in Lolita, maybe we're intended to see right through the rapist's self-obsession and cowardly justifications, and just watch him desperately flee from self-knowledge. I'm going to see it that way, for my blood pressure's sake.
pickMit einem unglaublichen Gespür für Gefühle beschreibt Musil die pubertären Verwirrungen des Protagonisten. Musil bleibt unpräzise und es ist genau das, was in mir dieselben Gefühle evozierte wie in meiner Teenagerzeit. Ich kann mich noch heute an eine lange Diskussion über Mathematik, Unendlichkeit und die Sinnhaftigkeit imaginärer Zahlen erinnern.
Man braucht etwas Zeit um in den Rhythmus dieses Buches zu kommen, aber es lohnt sich.
so-soThe literary-treated philosophical idea of morality and ethics (what is right and what is wrong) through the eyes of a young student of a boarding school, which faces its growing up, trying to understand human nature and the world. Slow and complex story about cruelty - dark side in humans. #backpackEurope
In the picture: Quite time in traditional Coffee House in Vienna. #Austria 🇦🇹
so-soSummary: boys are mean.
I would guess men might like this better than women—if they can relate to this world of c1900 European boys boarding school. I can‘t, thank goodness. And per the intro the author said ythat nothing in here is false (or something along those lines). Glad to be done! #1001books
Most unattractive book cover ever?! My March #reading1001 #TBRchallenge read. I do judge books by their covers, and I would never have chosen this had I known about the creepy cover, ugh! I may need to make a cover lol. #1001books
pickA deceptively short book set at an elite boy's boarding school in the beginning of the 20th century. Törless is introspective, isolating himself in his emotions. He falls in with two boys that take advantage of another boy, learning how much power they can exercise over him. Törless observes and exerts his own influence as he struggles to reconcile his estatic glimpses of infinity with the socially constrained, rational world. #litsyclassics #Y
Started this slim-looking volume for the first book of the year and #Y for my #LitsyClassicsAtoZ challenge. Of course I made a bingo card for it :-D :-D :-D
#LitsyClassics, @Sarah83
panI hated this book. Not because of its style but because of its subject. The humiliation of one boy by other boys (while calling -mentally- torturing 'confusion') is disgusting. Even worse is the complete lack of conscious the bullyers show. It being Germany in the beginning of the 20th century didn't help either.
Maybe I should rate this book with 5 stars because it has this effect on me but I just can't. #1001books
