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Robert Musil's "The Confusions of Young Torless" Updated: 2011-02-16 22:41:38 Description: Harvard literary scholar Susanne Klingenstein discusses Robert Musil's The Confusions of Young T?rless as part of the Goethe-Institut Boston's "What is German?" seminar. Although at first glance, Musil's novel looks like any other of the fin-de-sicle coming of age novels set in quasi military all-boys schools, rife with sexual abuse fostered by emotional abuse, The Confusions of Young T?rless is also a philosophical book that investigates the limits of knowledge. How do we know what we know and how is what we know grounded in, or determined by who we are? LISTEN NOW | DOWNLOAD |
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