Hermann Broch
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Born | Vienna, Austria-Hungary | November 1, 1886
Died | May 30, 1951 New Haven, Connecticut | (aged 64)
Nationality | Austrian |
Literary movement | Modernism |
Hermann Broch (German: [bʁɔx]; 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).[1][2]
Life
Broch was born in
In 1909 he converted to
He was acquainted with many of the writers, intellectuals, and artists of his time, including Robert Musil, Rainer Maria Rilke, Elias Canetti, Leo Perutz, Franz Blei and writer and former nude model Ea von Allesch.
After the
From the 15th of August to the 15th of September 1939, Hermann Broch lived at the
Work
Broch's first major literary work was the trilogy
One of his foremost works, The Death of Virgil (Der Tod des Vergil) was first published in June 1945 in both its English translation and original German.[12][13][14] Having begun the text as a short radio lecture in 1937,[15] Broch expanded and redeveloped the text over the next eight years of his life, which witnessed a short incarceration in an Austrian prison after the Austrian Anschluss,[16] his flight to Scotland via England,[17] and his eventual exile in the United States.[18] This extensive, difficult novel interweaves reality, hallucination, poetry and prose, and reenacts the last 18 hours of the Roman poet Virgil's life in the port of Brundisium (Brindisi). Here, shocked by the balefulness (Unheil) of the society he glorifies in his Aeneid, the feverish Virgil resolves to burn his epic, but is thwarted by his close friend and emperor Augustus before he succumbs to his fatal ailment. The final chapter exhibits the final hallucinations of the poet, where Virgil voyages to a distant land at which he witnesses roughly the biblical creation story in reverse.
Broch's final published work before he died was The Guiltless (Die Schuldlosen, 1950), a collection of stories.[19]
Broch demonstrates mastery of a wide range of styles, from the gentle parody of Theodor Fontane in the first volume of The Sleepwalkers through the essayistic segments of the third volume to the dithyrambic phantasmagoria of The Death of Virgil.[citation needed]
Selected bibliography
- Die Schlafwandler. Eine Romantrilogie (1930–32). The Sleepwalkers: A Trilogy, trans. by Edwin and Willa Muir (1932).
- Pasenow; oder, Die Romantik – 1888 (1930). Part One: The Romantic.
- Esch; oder, Die Anarchie – 1903 (1931). Part Two: The Anarchist.
- Huguenau, oder, Die Sachlichkeit – 1918 (1932). Part Three: The Realist.
- Die unbekannte Größe (1933). The Unknown Quantity, trans. by Edwin and Willa Muir (1935).
- Der Tod des Vergil (1945). The Death of Virgil, trans. by Jean Starr Untermeyer (1945).
- Die Schuldlosen (1950). The Guiltless, trans. by Ralph Manheim (1974).
- Short Stories (1966), edited by E. W. Herd, introduction in English, text in German. Includes: "Verlorener Sohn"; "Eine leichte Enttäuschung"; "Der Meeresspiegel"; and "Die Heimkehr des Vergil".
- Hofmannsthal und seine Zeit (1974). Hugo von Hofmannsthal and His Time, trans. by Michael P. Steinberg (1984).
- Die Verzauberung (1976). The Spell, trans. by Hermann Broch de Rothermann (1987).
- Geist and Zeitgeist: The Spirit in an Unspiritual Age (2002). Six essays translated by John Hargraves.
Complete works in German: Kommentierte Werkausgabe, ed. Paul Michael Lützeler. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1974–1981.
- KW 1: Die Schlafwandler. Eine Romantrilogie
- KW 2: Die unbekannte Größe. Roman
- KW 3: Die Verzauberung. Roman
- KW 4: Der Tod des Vergil. Roman
- KW 5: Die Schuldlosen. Roman in elf Erzählungen
- KW 6: Novellen
- KW 7: Dramen
- KW 8: Gedichte
- KW 9/ 1+2: Schriften zur Literatur
- KW 10/ 1+2: Philosophische Schriften
- KW 11: Politische Schriften
- KW 12: Massenwahntheorie
- KW 13/ 1+2+3: Briefe.
See also
Notes
- ^ "Broch, Hermann (1886–1951) - Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism". www.rem.routledge.com. Retrieved 2021-09-24.
- ^ "A Companion to the Works of Hermann Broch". Boydell and Brewer. Retrieved 2021-09-24.
- ^ Lützeler 1985, p. 51.
- ^ Hermann Broch – Daniel Brody Briefwechsel 1930–1951
- ISBN 978-0-7043-2604-0.
- .
- ^ Bartram, Graham; McGaughey, Sarah (2019). A Companion to the Works of Hermann Broch. Camden House. p. 8.
- ISBN 9783518751015. (Late in the summer of 1939, Einstein rented a cottage on Nassau Point in Cutchogue, New Yorkso that he could put his sailboat in Horshoe Cove.)
- ^ "In Exile". Princeton University Department of German.
- ^ "Nomination%20archive". April 2020.
- ISSN 0031-2037. Retrieved 2021-09-24.
- JSTOR 24645661.
- ^ Lützeler 1985, pp. 294–295.
- ^ "Book Reviews, Sites, Romance, Fantasy, Fiction". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 2021-09-27.
- ^ Lützeler 1985, p. 213.
- ^ Lützeler 1985, pp. 218–220.
- ^ Lützeler 1985, pp. 235–242.
- ^ Lützeler 1985, p. 243.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-24.
References
- Lützeler, Paul Michael (1985). Hermann Broch: Eine Biographie. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag. ISBN 3-518-03572-X.
- Lützeler, Paul Michael (2011). Hermann Broch und die Moderne: Roman, Menschenrecht, Biographie. München: Wilhelm Fink. ISBN 978-3-7705-5101-9.
Further reading
- Graham Bartram, Sarah McGaughey, and Galin Tihanov, ed. A Companion to the Works of Hermann Broch. Camden House: Rochester, NY, 2019. ISBN 9781571135414
- Michael Kessler and Paul Michael Lützeler, ed. Hermann-Broch-Handbuch. DeGruyter: Berlin and Boston, 2015. ISBN 978-3-11-029556-6
External links
- Petri Liukkonen. "Hermann Broch". Books and Writers.
- IN SEARCH OF THE ABSOLUTE NOVEL – 1985 review of The Sleepwalkers by Theodore Ziolkowski
- Hermann Broch archive at Yale University
- The Sleepwalkers at The Complete Review
- Geist and Zeitgeist at The Complete Review
- Death of Virgil at The Complete Review
- A personal page about Broch's writings, and about Broch's son, H.F. Broch de Rothermann
- IAB, an international group of scholars working on Hermann Broch, with biography, bibliography, and links
- H. F. Broch de Rothermann Papers. Yale Collection of German Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.