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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
The Death of Virgil, novel by Hermann Broch, published simultaneously in German (as Der Tod des Vergil) and in English in 1945. The novel, the best known of the author’s works, imaginatively re-creates the last 18 hours of the Roman poet Virgil’s life as he is taken to Brundisium (now Brindisi)
- Hermann Broch
- 1945
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 ...
Jul 23, 2019 · Death of Virgil, Hermann Broch. “It is the reign of the Emperor Augustus, and Publius Vergilius Maro, the poet of the Aeneid and Caesar’s enchanter, has been summoned to the palace, where he will shortly die. Out of the last hours of Virgil’s life and the final stirrings of his consciousness, the Austrian writer Hermann Broch fashioned ...
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 ...
Nov 11, 2019 · This chapter investigates modernist biofictions, with a particular focus on Hermann Broch’s Der Tod des Vergil (The Death of Virgil, 1945).Engaging with Virgil’s texts and the ancient biographical traditions about him, Broch’s novel neatly foregrounds the interactions between biofiction, classical reception and the literary, intellectual and political preoccupations of the first half of ...
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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 ...
