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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:
The Evil in Art's Value System is a DAAD-sponsored event. Though kitsch seems to have lost its horror in the wake of post-modernism, the discourse that high modernism launched against it in the first third of the 20th century was a kind of proselytism. Hermann Broch pursues what he identifies as kitschy with a particular furor, calling kitsch ...
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).
Nov 3, 1985 · Paper, $15.50. IT is a paradox that two of the most boldly innovative novels of the 20th century were written by a man who regarded literature as a poor substitute for philosophy. Hermann Broch ...
Jan 20, 2023 · 7 Hermann Broch’s Massenwahnprojekt and Its Relevance for Our Times; 8 Human Rights and the Intellectual’s Ethical Duty: Broch’s Political Writings; 9 Broch’s Der Tod des Vergil: Art and Power, Language and the Ineffable; 10 From the “Tierkreis-Erzählungen” to Die Schuldlosen: The Creation of Broch’s Last Novel; 11 Broch’s ...
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 (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 ...
