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

2.0

Strong as a portent of the origins of totalitarianism, strong also in its specific observations of the fluctuations between doubt and certainty that are the result of Törless’ constant overthinking, weak as an attempt at disguising an amateur psychological thesis as a novel. The confusions advance in muddy tracts of prose that ruminate too long on abstract mental states. I feel like one of the teachers at the end.