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The Sleepwalkers is a trilogy of novels by Austrian writer Hermann Broch, published in German in three parts between 1930 and 1932. The books follow Pasenow, Esch, and Huguenau across the years 1888, 1903, and 1918, using their changing social worlds to examine the erosion of shared moral and religi...
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Modernist landmark admired for intellectual scope and diagnosis of collapsing values, but trilogy length, essayistic passages, and unevenness deter readers.
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The Death of Virgil is a 1945 novel by Austrian author Hermann Broch. The narrative takes place over the final eighteen hours of the Roman poet Virgil's life as he lies dying in the harbor of Brundisium upon returning from Greece. Rendered largely through complex stream-of-consciousness interior mon...
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Major Broch novel, admired for high modernist ambition and death meditation, difficult and less widely read.
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