{"product_id":"9781847493545","title":"The Confusions of Young Master Toerless","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Musil, Robert, Moncrieff, Christopher\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eFiction \u0026amp; related items\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 20 November 2013 by Alma Books Ltd (Alma Classics).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 250 pages\u003cbr\u003e195 x 132 x 15 | 188g\u003cp\u003eMusil's limpid, psychological evocation of adolescent sexuality and its often sadistic eroticism which anticipates the carnage of both World Wars.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the nineteenth century draws to an end, young Toerless is sent to a military boarding school for the sons of the nobility on the eastern outreaches of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Far from his comfortable, free-thinking bourgeois home and left to his own devices, he experiences the joy, pain and self-doubt of adolescence. He is confronted with desire and love, but also his own cruelty, as he finds himself participating in his fellow pupils' bullying campaigns.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA dark Bildungsroman which shocked its readership at the time, Robert Musil's first novel is a fresco of psychoanalysis, philosophy, eroticism, snobbery, sado-masochism and schoolboy humour, a hothouse of alternately repressed and unchained desires that prefigure the carnage of both World Wars.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Musil, Robert, Moncrieff, Christopher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42538211705016,"sku":"9781847493545","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9781847493545.jpg?v=1734726655","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9781847493545","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}