A review by zach_l
The Confusions of Young Torless by Mike Mitchell, Robert Musil, Ritchie Robertson

No rating. If you are an adolescent male struggling with your sexuality but also addicted to Nietzsche, I have found you the novel of your dreams. "The Confusions of Young Törless" is one of the earliest works of gay fiction (before "gay fiction" was really a genre) and I assign it no rating because although I did not particular enjoy it, I do not want to undermine its significance! The book itself is deeply philosophical, in a rather precious (and hard to follow) way that mixes layers of psychology and morality and political allegory. In short, it provides endless material for 1,000+ college essays but as a general read it was more of a slog. That said, the inner torment of Törless feels real when you get past the intellectual language and you can sense the author's own struggles coming through the page.