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Hermann Broch (born Nov. 1, 1886, Vienna, Austria—died May 30, 1951, New Haven, Conn., U.S.) was an Austrian writer who achieved international recognition for his multidimensional novels, in which he used innovative literary techniques to present a wide range of human experience. In 1927 Broch renounced his inheritance by selling his family ...
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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).
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 ...
May 1, 2008 · The mass theory of the Austrian novelist and philosopher Hermann Broch has been virtually ignored in social theory. However, the recent theoretical interest in crowds makes it pertinent to scrutinize this part of his work. This article presents and examines the fundamental architecture of Broch's Massenwahntheorie, its historical context and ...
- Christian Borch
- 2008
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 ...
Sep 28, 2015 · One day in 1985, I was reading The New Yorker in my high-school library when I came across George Steiner’s article “Dream City”—a review of a translation of Hermann Broch’s “Hugo von ...
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The Achievement of Hermann Broch" In Reflections on Literature and Culture edited by Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb, 148-155. Redwood City: Stanford University Press, 2007. Redwood City: Stanford University Press, 2007.
