Reviews - O jovem Törless

112 reviews for:

O jovem Törless

Robert Musil

3.55 AVERAGE

windtzutzu's review against another edition

4.75

dark reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

frejola's review against another edition

5.0

The darkness of this book made it very appealing to me. It brought me right back into my late teenage years, those years when I cut myself off from my upbringing (morals and mores), those years of intense emotional and physical experimentation. One day it's a new drug, the other day it's Hinduism, the next day is gay sex, then pretending to read Kant. This book is by far the best coming of age book I've read. I felt completely inside Törless' mind. I found this book also brilliantly translated - dense yet very readable. It goes into my list of books I should re-read in the original language - I should as well attack The Man Without Qualities.

dubiousdeeds's review against another edition

3.0

Straining

blocksbiloxi's review against another edition

1.0

So dull
No thank u

dreesreads's review against another edition

2.0

I did no enjoy nor relate to this book. Boys are mean, basically. I imagine men--at least those men that might be able to relate to a c1900 Austro-Hungarian boys' boarding school or a similar situation--might be able to relate to this much better and might find it much more moving.

Per the intro, Musil said that nothing in here didn't happen, essentially. But we all know kids can be cruel. Girls exclude, boys torment. And the boys in here do torment. Largely upper class kids sent to a boarding school with way too much unsupervised time to themselves.

dudette's review against another edition

1.0

a really strange book...

laviniag's review against another edition

1.0

Such a generous subject but such a boring book. And now, as some1 around here said, I can reply to: "Have you read Musil's famous ?" with: "No, but I read his very first book. Have you?" :D
I'm almost sure I would have enjoyed it better if it had been written in the 1st person (I even liked Zeno more while reading Torless). The poetic (sometimes pathetic) language lost me. And all those philosophical perorations! Coming of age was never duller! I choose [b:The catcher in the rye|5107|The Catcher in the Rye|J.D. Salinger|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165517671s/5107.jpg|3036731] and [b:The adventures of Huckleberry Finn|629740|Huckleberry Finn (Illus. Classics) (Illustrated Classics)|Mark Twain|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176488294s/629740.jpg|1835605] without even blinking. And as for adolescence cruelty & adventure, try [b:Lords of the flies|7624|Lord of the Flies|William Golding|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165637417s/7624.jpg|2766512].
Now let's get down to some serious reading.