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Hermann Broch (German:; 1 November 1886 – 30 ... The following year, their son Hermann Friedrich Maria was born. His marriage ended in divorce in 1923.
Nov 27, 2012 · With his wife Franziska, Broch had only a single child, Armand. While Broch had become preoccupied with deep questions of philosophy, psychology, and politics, his son became a thoroughgoing materialist. Sent away to an elite boarding school when 14, Armand found himself surrounded by students from the richest families in Europe.
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By any measure, Hermann Broch was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. Author of The Sleepwalkers and The Spell, he stands, together with James Joyce and Marcel Proust, at the pinnacle of literary Modernism. Born in 1886, he saw the First World War destroy the culture and consciousness of what had come before, seeing the West ...
A Companion to the Works of Hermann Broch. Search within full text. Get access. Edited by Graham Bartram, Sarah McGaughey, Galin Tihanov. Publisher: Boydell & Brewer. Online publication date: January 2023. Print publication year:
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Hermann Broch was born in November 1886 in Vienna. His father was a textile wholesaler and tried to push his son into business. Broch studied textile engineering, travelled to the United States to learn about cotton production and went to work in his father’s factory. He married the daughter of a sugar manufacturer, Franziska von Rothermann, after ...
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With his wife Franziska, Broch had only a single child, Armand. While Broch had become preoccupied with deep questions of philosophy, psychology, and politics, his son became a thoroughgoing materialist. Sent away to an elite boarding school when 14, Armand found himself surrounded by students from the richest families in Europe.
As it was, Hermann Broch was to leave behind on his death in 1951 not only a substantial literary oeuvre, including (alongside Die Schlafwandler) the extraordinary lyrical novel Der Tod des Vergil (1945; The Death of Virgil, 1945), but also a corpus of philosophical, psychological, and political writings that, like the novels, were the product of a lifelong project: the quest to establish a ...
