The Confusions of Young Törless (riverrun editions)

Robert Musil

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.>