Un'atroce esperienza di crudelt in un collegio militare alla periferia dell'impero asburgico vissuta passionalmente e rivissuta con gelo matematico. Crisi adolescenziale e aggressivit di filosofie nuove, la vicenda di Törless, indubbiamente modellata su esperienze autobiografiche, rappresenta la grande prova inaugurale del futuro autore de L'uomo senza qualit. Costituisce una vera e propria rottura nella storia della prosa tedesca.
At a bleak, isolated military school on the fringes of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, four young cadets - Torless, Beineberg, Reiting and their victim Basini - drift even further away from their school- fellows into a private world of ritual, secrecy and torture. First published in 1906.
El hombre sin atributos fue escrita entre 1930 y 1942 y quedó interrumpida por la muerte del autor. Los actores principales de esta tragicomedia monumental son: Ulrich, el hombre sin atributos, el matemático idealista, el sarcástico espectador; Leona y Bonadea, las dos amadas del matemático, desbancadas por Diotima, cerebro dirigente de la «Acción Paralela» y mujer cuya estupidez sólo es comparable a su hermosura; y Arnheim, el hombre con atributos, un millonario prusiano cuya conversación fluctúa entre lasmodernas técnicas de la inseminación artificial y las tallas medievales búlgaras. Alrededor de ellos se mueve, como en un esperpéntico vodevil, la digna, honrada, aristocrática sociedad de Kakania (el imperio austro-húngaro), que vive los últimos momentos desu vacía decadencia antes de sucumbir a la hecatombe de la Gran Guerra.Esta cúspide de la novela de nuestro tiempo abre ante el lector de lengua castellana nuevas y aún más vastas regiones del mundo narrativo del siglo XX. La presente edición en dos volúmenes incluye todo el material publicado en español de esta ambiciosa tragicomedia que trasciende el marco geográfico y temporal minuciosamente descrito, para convertirse en una alegoría universal.Edición completa en dos volúmenes.
This long-awaited new translation, the first in English to provide a complete text, brings to its readers one of the greatest masterpieces in all twentieth-century literature in a two-volume boxed set. The Man Without Qualities stands alongside Proust's Remembrance of Things Past and Joyce's Ulysses as one of the three literary masterworks of modernism. Dazzlingly written, ferocious, suffused with a high ironic intelligence, it uses Viennese high society on the eve of World War I to chronicle the decay and collapse of the entire Old World and, with utter prescience, to explore all that would follow in our Age of Anxiety. Part satire, part visionary epic, part intellectual tour de force, The Man Without Qualities is a work of immeasurable importance.
Musil's limpid, psychological evocation of adolescent sexuality and its often sadistic eroticism which anticipates the carnage of both World WarsAs the nineteenth century draws to an end, young Torless is sent to a military boarding school for the sons of the nobility on the eastern outreaches of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Far from his comfortable, free-thinking bourgeois home and left to his own devices, he experiences the joy, pain and self-doubt of adolescence. He is confronted with desire and love, but also his own cruelty, as he finds himself participating in his fellow pupils bullying campaigns.A dark Bildungsroman which shocked its readership at the time, Robert Musils first novel is a fresco of psychoanalysis, philosophy, eroticism, snobbery, sado-masochism and schoolboy humour, a hothouse of alternately repressed and unchained desires that prefigure the carnage of both World Wars.
Las Tribulaciones del estudiante Törless es un estudio intenso del desarrollo psicológico de un adolescente acosado por emociones conflictivas que provienen de su modo particular de buscarse a sí mis
