Though best known to American scholars as an unsung master novelist (The Death of Virgil; The Sleepwalkers), Austrian-born Broch (1886-1951) also penned challenging, provocative essays. The six ...
THE DEATH OF VIRGIL — Hermann Broch—Pantheon Books ($5.50). THE PINE TREE AND THE MOLE—Enzio Taddei—Dial ($2.50). The ships of the imperial squadron were heading for the Adriatic port of Brundisium ...
THE SLEEPWALKERS (648 pp.)—Hermann Broch—Pantheon ($5). If any readers have any nostalgic hankerings for the literary days of the early ’30s, The Sleepwalkers should make them think again. Its reissue ...
Desire is an eternal flame that casts a wicked glow in "Zerline's Tale," a seductive but ultimately slight memory play based on a short story from Austrian writer Hermann Broch's book "The Guiltless," ...
Jean-Baptiste Wicar, "Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus, Octavia, and Livia," circa 1790 (image: Wikimedia Commons) The Austrian novelist Hermann Broch dreaded the rise of Hitler, and with good ...
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