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Today we look at the famously complex, Modernist masterpiece 'The Death of Virgil' by Hermann Broch and ask the question: at what point does the difficulty o...
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In "The Sleepwalkers: 1918, Hugenau or Realism," Hermann Broch continues his exploration of the tumultuous transition from pre-World War I Europe to the post...
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Apr 26, 2003 · The contradiction plays itself out nobly in The Death of Virgil, as conservative political statements clash with modernist techniques on a huge swath of territory that is Broch’s alone. The book is divided into four sections named after the four elements. In the short first section, the sick and dying Virgil arrives in Rome and is brought to ...
The Death of Virgil (German: Der Tod des Vergil) is a 1945 novel by the Austrian author Hermann Broch.The narrative reenacts the last hours of life of the Roman poet Virgil, in the port of Brundisium (), whence he had accompanied the emperor Augustus, his decision – frustrated by the emperor – to burn his Aeneid, and his final reconciliation with his destiny.
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Hermann Broch: Der Tod des Vergil (The Death of Virgil) This is an amazing but, let it be said, very difficult novel. The whole novel consists of the dying Virgil discussing his life work with himself. The novel is divided into four parts, named for the four elements. In the first part, called Water and subtitled The Arrival, the dying poet is ...
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Hermann Broch (German: [bʁɔx]; 1 November 1886 – 30 May 1951) was an Austrian writer, best known for two major works of modernist fiction: The Sleepwalkers (Die Schlafwandler, 1930–32) and The Death of Virgil (Der Tod des Vergil, 1945). [1][2]
