'The Man Without Qualities': 20 years in the making Previously, he had published an enthusiastic article about the war in a newspaper, very unusual with regard to the attitude he presented in his works. In 1914, Musil served as a reserve captain in the Alps on the notorious Isonzo Front. The story is set against the background of the gradually but unmistakably disintegrating Imperial and Royal monarchy, a multi-ethnic state crumbling after the First World War. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video 'The Confusions of Young Master Törless' by Robert Musil It's now considered one of the early major works of literary modernism. The book offers a direct illustration of how authoritarian social structures arise. The main protagonist, Törless, is an ambiguous character torn between loyalty to his sheltered, middle-class home and the insinuations of his classmates and his own increasing sensitivity. It is a coming of age story set in a military academy in the countryside, in which three young cadets cruelly torment a younger comrade. The young man took a fresh, more philosophical look at his stint in the cadet school, and used his experiences there for his 1906 debut novel, The Confusions of Young Törless. Image: picture-alliance/Imagno/Austrian Archives Breakthrough with 'The Confusions of Young Master Törless' He quickly hooked up with popular artists and educated circles in the German capital.
In 1903, he enrolled in philosophy and psychology classes in Berlin, a turning point in Musil's biography. However, after previously consulting with his father, the young man broke off his artillery officer training at the Imperial and Royal Technical Military Academy in Vienna, and later his mechanical engineering studies in Brno.
If Musil now counts among the titans of 20th century literature, alongside the likes of France's Marcel Proust or Ireland's James Joyce, heīorn on November 6, 1880, the only son of an engineer near the Austrian city of Klagenfurt, Robert Musil attended various military schools from 1892 on at his father's request.
"There is no other living German writer whose fame after his death is so certain," said Literature Nobel Prize laureate Thomas Mann on Jabout his young colleague Robert Musil.
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