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    <body><![CDATA[Such a generous subject but such a boring book. And now, as some1 around here said, I can reply to: &quot;Have you read Musil's famous &lt;The man without qualities&gt;?&quot; with: &quot;No, but I read his very first book. Have you?&quot; :D<br/>I'm almost sure I would have enjoyed it better if it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53831516">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A dark, dense, compelling read. It's simultaneously about the intrigues and backstabbing that goes on at an elite German military academy (think a much smarter all-male version of Cruel Intentions) mixed with a dense and complex look at a young boy trying to make sense of the world, his emotions, se...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26017336">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Musil, Robert.  YOUNG TORLESS.  (1906).  ****.  Robert Musil was born in Austria in 1880.  He attended military academy in Moravia before studying engineering in Brno and experimental psychology in Berlin.  Fleeing Berlin in the wake of the Nazi takeover, he left Vienna in 1938 for the same reason, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54638226">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I only read this book so that when people talked about &quot;The Man Without Qualities,&quot; I could casually say, &quot;Oh, did you read his earlier work, 'The Confusions of Young Torless'?&quot;  'Cause obvs, I am never going to get around to reading &quot;The Man Without Qualities.&quot;]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is one of my favorite coming-of-age books.  It is a no-holds-barred story of a boy growing up in a boarding school and all the self-reflection that comes out of that experience.  This book is about the first signs of sexuality, frustration and most importantly the hierarchy that is establi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51982196">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[an all-boys boarding school deep somewhere in the prussian empire. power hierarchy is created by bullying through rape and mental humiliation. searing and alive. one of the best books ever.prefaced most of 20th century modern lit.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[TÃ¶rless is confused. He goes to an all-boys school. He is confused. He thinks of women. He thinks of men. Things happen. One boy steals. Other boys find out about the theft. They take advantage of this knowledge. TÃ¶rless is confused. He wants to see cruelty. He's indifferent. He cares. He doesn't ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71488947">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Confusions of Young Torless is a novel about a young and thoughtful boy who is thrown into the world of a private military school where violence and sexual aggression are the norm. He becomes acquainted with a local prostitute through his school friends and engages in intercourse with her despit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34780919">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[a bleak, unflinching look at a prep school kid coming to terms with his homosexual and philosophical urges. almost a cross between salinger's <em>catcher in the rye</em> and gide's <em>the immoralist</em>, if that makes any sense. with its ethical ambiguity and deeply un-likeable characters, there's something admirab...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12728124">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[At its core, &quot;Torless&quot; is a story about the trials/scandals of a group of adolescents at a boarding school. The boys are at a time in their life where they are escaping the innocence of childhood, but being primed to become men. So we see Torless being confused by his feelings towards his ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11401253">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A dark and claustrophobic coming of age novel in which a young Austrian wrestles with his indifference, dark thoughts, isolation, and sexuality in a military boarding school. Much of his confusion and anger is focused on a fellow student who is being tormented by some older students that have let TÃ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63665507">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Quite good first novel from the author of my all-time favorite book, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= The Man Without Qualities" title=" The Man Without Qualities"> The Man Without Qualities</a>.  You know how, when you wake up from an especially troubling nightmare, sometimes throughout the entire next day reality can have a suspicious, dark undercurrent?  TÃ¶rless, an adolescent boy in a milita...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30820725">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite professors, Dr. Hullot-Kentor, asked us to read this book as part of a World Literature course. I'd really like to create a separate list of books I read while taking that class. Maybe I'll do that. It was definitely one of the most valuable experiences I enjoyed during graduate s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56565366">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[More satisfying than the 1960's film version.  It goes beyond being just a prophetic look at the fascist undercurrents already in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century to a more radical look at the way that rationality can lead to a fascination with barbarity.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Musil meets Huysmans meets a character stuck in a world of neither here nor there, of a somnolent existence without a dream. The 1906 edition's forward by a Brit comparing the 'superiority' of British schools against the German model is a hoot. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this novel many years ago, when I was at secondary school, following the suggestion of my literature professor, who was a lover of Musil. To get my grade I was to choose between the readings that were part of the official school programme and &quot;something&quot; else, and of course I chose ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11697275">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Somehow not what I was expecting - young boys performing sexual games upon each other takes up the bulk of the middle section came upon me rather suddenly -but nevertheless very powerful reading place to go and only a short novella so it doesn't last too long. A vivid account of the coming of age of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11340657">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[schoolboy's story filled with sexual anguish and nastiness (this is a military all boy's school), not as good as Man without Qualities, but it has its moments.]]></body>
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