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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.
- Hermann Broch
- 1945
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 ...
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:
Nov 1, 2022 · The Death of Vergil was a slowly evolving project for Broch; as Theodore Ziolkowski notes, Broch’s engagement with Vergil had begun in 1936/1937, and the novel continued to expand during the period of his American exile across eight separate versions, transforming from the late 1930s from The Homecoming of Vergil (Die Heimkehr Des Vergil) to The Death of Vergil (Der Tod Des Vergil), a shift ...
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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 ...
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).
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Jan 30, 2011 · The idea of progress can be read into Broch’s style. The Death of Virgil is more difficult, as it starts in the same mode that ends The Sleepwalkers. The reader can work out what’s going on easily enough, but the effect is to make the book daunting to the reader, who hasn’t been eased into it. The sentences go on and on; there are few ...
