Name: The Confusions of Young Törless
ISBN: 9780142180006

Robert Musil

Presents the story of bullying, snobbery, and homoerotic violence at an elite European boys academy, reflecting the attitudes and cultural changes that led to the rise of fascism.

The Confusions of Young Törless

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Association within the Kafkaesque, Beckett-ian approach to a much more nihilistic Catcher in the Rye-like prose, synchronous fraternity-like story where Torless embarked upon an endeavour outlooking the vast unredeemable thought processes of youth: the allowance of abuse, of eternal seeking of meanings and purpose, in a very much vicious and barbaric way: persecution and objectification of another flawed human being. Aside from that, it's pretty devastating to see the path of consciousness Torless took that relentlessly diminish along its way: he became rather much a null being, a being who seem to grew apathetic over the countless mental turmoil he prefaced from himself, a self-acceptance that everything is pointless, cease to provide a meaning and thus, bring him to a worthless naught. 

Callous to the humaneness that seek the embrace of his skin, he repels and desecrates any shred of it, and proceed to preface the world in the perpetual bleakness that surmounted him.