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Tim O'Brien

219. Robert Musil - The Confessions Of Young Torless


Couldn’t get ‘The Man Without Qualities’ on a Kindle so this as a substitute.

Typical German early 20th century expressionist (is this the right word?). Very self conscious and prolix interior monologue.

I don’t think this is a very good novel – about a hyper intelligent kid shoved off to a Prussian boy’s boarding school – a lot of very self conscious psychobabble, sex and homoerotic boarding school bullying. But none of the characters, Toeless included, remotely interested me.


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