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  1. Hermann Broch (German:; 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).

  2. 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:

  3. 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 ...

  4. Sep 20, 2020 · Hermann Broch’s first novel, The Sleepwalkers, is a psychological-historical novel that explores the gradual disintegration of values beginning in the latter half of the nineteenth century and culminating in the Armageddon that was World War I. The work is a trilogy whose main sections bear the names and the worldviews of each section’s ...

  5. Apr 26, 2003 · The Death of Virgil, Hermann Broch. I once said that The Death of Virgil exists on its own plane of reality, and that is what makes the book worth reading. As a novel of ideas it is behind most of Thomas Mann’s work, and doesn’t even approach Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities. As a historical excursion into the classics, it’s ...

  6. Hermann Broch (1886-1951) is best known for his two major modernist works, The Sleepwalkers (3 vols., 1930-1932) and The Death of Virgil (1945), which frame a lifetime of ethical, cultural, political, and social thought. A textile manufacturer by trade, Broch entered the literary scene late in life with an experimental view of the novel that ...

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  8. Apr 21, 1974 · Twenty‐three years ago the Austrian novelist Hermann Broch died in New Haven at the age of 65, having fled Nazi imprisonment soon after Hitler took over Austria.

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