Name: The Confusions of Young Torless, Paperback/Robert Musil
Brand: Penguin Books
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At a bleak, isolated military school on the fringes of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, four young cadets --Torless, Beineberg, Reiting and their victim Basini--rift even further away from their school- fellows into a private world of ritual, secrecy and torture. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. About the Author: Robert Musil (1880-1942) is principally known in English as the author of The Man Without Qualities , Five Women , The Posthumous Papers of a Living Author and The Confusions of Young Torless . Shaun Whiteside 's translations include Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy and Musil's The Confusions of Young Torless for Penguin Classics. J. M. Coetzee was born in Cape Town, South Africa, on February 9, 1940, and studied first at Cape Town and later at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a Ph.D. degree in literature. In 1972 he returned to South Africa and joined the faculty of the University of Cape Town. His works of fiction include Dusklands , Waiting for the Barbarians , which won South Africa's highest literary honor, the