What do think of The Confusions of a Pretentious Faggot?
Was like looking in a mirror desu
It resonated a lot with me when I was a teenager. Just something about that moment of realization when the whole world seems absurd and impossible. The film is pretty good too just for the attractive cast.
>>7742152
I'll have to see if I can get a hold of the film.
>>7742126
i tried to read his other book, the man without masculinity, and i must say, despite the potential for patricianity, that thinly veiled philosophical essay was boring enough to consider all germans pisstaking virgins.
>>7742931
someone please prove me wrong.
I really didn't enjoy this book at all. Long-winded theoretical essay about mathematics interrupted occasionally by a bunch of friends doing typical young-author-writes-about-shocking-stuff scenes that was just boring.
>>7743191
The mathematics was a pretty small part of it but I did find the extended metaphysical speeches a bit much. I wasn't bored by the plot, though the fact that theywere all such terrible people was a bit of a shame.
>>7743225
>im dissapointed bc i didnt like the characters
>>7743191
Well it's supposedly somewhat autobiographical so it's not exactly for shock factor alone.
>>7742931
How the fuck you read a fucking 1500+ pages book and still can't get the name or author's nationality right, specially considering how the idea of nation is mocked through said 1500+ pages?
That being said, I quite liked both Young Torless and Man Without Qualities.
>>7743191
>long winded
the book is like, 120 pages?
>>7743243
It's only a problem because it doesn't feel like the author intended for Torless to come across as unsympathetically as he did to me.
A bildungsroman where the main character changes from being a relatably lost young man into a bit of a cunt is pretty unsatisfying.
Around 200 pages in TMWQ. It's super funny until the long drawn out political explanations come in.
I think more people on /lit/ need to read the section where Musil describes Ulrich's artist friend as a roving will-less type that had potential but declined into lackluster banality.
>>7742210
I didn't have much trouble finding it about 7 years ago when it was much less known on the web. Finding decent subs might be another issue for you. Being one of Volker Schlöndorff earliest works makes it worth a watch it you're in any way interested in German cinema.
