A review by frejola
The Confusions of Young Törless by Robert Musil

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.