Törleß and the Scene of Reading

IF 0.3 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Dominik Zechner
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The article reads Robert Musil’s debut novel Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß (The Confusions of Young Törless) (1906) as a novel of the institution (Campe) in which diverse forms of violence are intertwined. Contrary to the assumption that Musil’s novel aims at the depiction of sado-masochistic transgressions, my argument focuses on a reading scene that mediates the novel’s various potentials of violence: only when Törleß reads Kant does it become clear which violence and which pain are meant by Musil’s text. The experience of reading becomes a masochistic act in the course of which the pleasure of the text is recast in terms of a negative textual jouissance. Musil’s novel, in turn, becomes readable not as an exhibition of schoolboys in disgrace, but as an exploration of the violent structure of practical reason itself.
Törleß和阅读现场
这篇文章把罗伯特·穆希尔的处女作《青年的困惑Törless》(1906年)看作是描写各种形式的暴力交织在一起的制度(坎普)的小说。与Musil的小说旨在描述施虐受虐狂越界的假设相反,我的论点集中在一个阅读场景上,这个场景调解了小说中各种潜在的暴力:只有当Törleß阅读康德时,才会清楚Musil的文本意味着哪些暴力和哪些痛苦。阅读的体验变成了一种受虐行为,在这个过程中,文本的愉悦被重新塑造成一种消极的文本欢爽。Musil的小说,反过来,不是作为一个丢脸的男生的展览,而是作为对实践理性本身的暴力结构的探索。
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