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Hermann Broch

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]

Hermann Broch
Born(1886-11-01)November 1, 1886
Vienna, Austria-Hungary
DiedMay 30, 1951(1951-05-30) (aged 64)
New Haven, Connecticut
NationalityAustrian
Literary movementModernism

Life Edit

Broch was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, to a prosperous Jewish family and worked for some time in his family's factory, though he maintained his literary interests privately. As the oldest son, he was expected to take over his father’s textile factory in Teesdorf; therefore, he attended a technical college for textile manufacture and a spinning and weaving college.

In 1909 he converted to Roman Catholicism and married Franziska von Rothermann, the daughter of a knighted manufacturer.[3] The following year, their son Hermann Friedrich Maria was born. His marriage ended in divorce in 1923. In 1927 he sold the textile factory and decided to study mathematics, philosophy and psychology at the University of Vienna. He embarked on a full-time literary career around the age of 40. At the age of 45, his first major literary work, the trilogy The Sleepwalkers, was published by Daniel Brody for the Rhein Verlag in Munich in three volumes from 1930 to 1932.[4][5]

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 annexation of Austria by the Nazis on 12 March 1938, Broch was arrested in the small Alpine town of Bad Aussee for possession of a socialist magazine and detained in the district jail from the 13th to the 31st of March.[6] Shortly thereafter, a movement organized by friends – including James Joyce, Thornton Wilder, and his translators Edwin and Willa Muir – managed to help him emigrate; first to Britain and then to the United States, where he published his novel The Death of Virgil and his collection of short stories The Guiltless. While in exile, he also continued to write on politics and work on mass psychology, similar to Elias Canetti and Hannah Arendt. His essay on mass behaviour remained unfinished. Broch's work on mass psychology was intended to form part of more ambitious project to defend democracy, human rights, and human dignity as irreducible ethical absolutes in a postreligious age.[7]

From the 15th of August to the 15th of September 1939, Hermann Broch lived at the Albert Einstein House at 112 Mercer Street Princeton, New Jersey when the Einsteins were on vacation.[8] From 1942 to 1948 Broch lived in an attic apartment in Eric and Lili Kahler's house at One Evelyn Place in Princeton, New Jersey.[9] Broch died in 1951 in New Haven, Connecticut. He is buried in Killingworth, Connecticut, in the cemetery on Roast Meat Hill Road. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950.[10]

Work Edit

Broch's first major literary work was the trilogy The Sleepwalkers (Die Schlafwandler), published in three volumes from 1930 to 1932. Broch takes "the degeneration of values" as his theme.[citation needed] The trilogy has been praised by Milan Kundera, whose writing has been greatly influenced by Broch.[11]

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 Edit

  • 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 Edit

Notes Edit

  1. ^ "Broch, Hermann (1886–1951) - Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism". www.rem.routledge.com. Retrieved 2021-09-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ "A Companion to the Works of Hermann Broch". Boydell and Brewer. Retrieved 2021-09-24.
  3. ^ Lützeler 1985, p. 51.
  4. ^ Hermann Broch – Daniel Brody Briefwechsel 1930–1951
  5. ^ Lützeler, Paul Michael (1987). Hermann Broch: A Biography. Quartet. ISBN 978-0-7043-2604-0.
  6. ^ Winkler, Michael (1982). Exile: The Writer's Experience. Vol. 99. University of North Carolina Press. pp. 141–156. doi:10.5149/9781469658421_spalek. ISBN 9781469658421. JSTOR 10.5149/9781469658421_spalek.
  7. ^ Bartram, Graham; McGaughey, Sarah (2019). A Companion to the Works of Hermann Broch. Camden House. p. 8.
  8. ^ Lützeler, Paul Michael (2011). Hermann Broch: eine Biographie. Suhrkamp Verlag. p. 251. ISBN 9783518751015. (Late in the summer of 1939, Einstein rented a cottage on Nassau Point in Cutchogue, New York so that he could put his sailboat in Horshoe Cove.)
  9. ^ "In Exile". Princeton University Department of German.
  10. ^ "Nomination%20archive". April 2020.
  11. ^ Salmon, Interviewed by Christian (1984). "The Art of Fiction No. 81". The Paris Review. Interviews. Vol. Summer 1984, no. 92. ISSN 0031-2037. Retrieved 2021-09-24.
  12. ^ Peters, George F. (1977). ""The Death of Virgil": "Ein Englisches Gedicht? "". Modern Austrian Literature. 10 (1): 43–54. ISSN 0026-7503. JSTOR 24645661.
  13. ^ Lützeler 1985, pp. 294–295.
  14. ^ "Book Reviews, Sites, Romance, Fantasy, Fiction". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 2021-09-27.
  15. ^ Lützeler 1985, p. 213.
  16. ^ Lützeler 1985, pp. 218–220.
  17. ^ Lützeler 1985, pp. 235–242.
  18. ^ Lützeler 1985, p. 243.
  19. ^ O'Hara, J. D. (1974-04-21). "The Guiltless". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-24.

References Edit

  • 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 Edit

  • 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 Edit

  • 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.

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ConnecticutNationalityAustrianLiterary movementModernism Contents 1 Life 2 Work 3 Selected bibliography 4 See also 5 Notes 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External linksLife EditBroch was born in Vienna Austria Hungary to a prosperous Jewish family and worked for some time in his family s factory though he maintained his literary interests privately As the oldest son he was expected to take over his father s textile factory in Teesdorf therefore he attended a technical college for textile manufacture and a spinning and weaving college In 1909 he converted to Roman Catholicism and married Franziska von Rothermann the daughter of a knighted manufacturer 3 The following year their son Hermann Friedrich Maria was born His marriage ended in divorce in 1923 In 1927 he sold the textile factory and decided to study mathematics philosophy and psychology at the University of Vienna He embarked on a full time literary career around the age of 40 At the age of 45 his first major literary work the trilogy The Sleepwalkers was published by Daniel Brody for the Rhein Verlag in Munich in three volumes from 1930 to 1932 4 5 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 annexation of Austria by the Nazis on 12 March 1938 Broch was arrested in the small Alpine town of Bad Aussee for possession of a socialist magazine and detained in the district jail from the 13th to the 31st of March 6 Shortly thereafter a movement organized by friends including James Joyce Thornton Wilder and his translators Edwin and Willa Muir managed to help him emigrate first to Britain and then to the United States where he published his novel The Death of Virgil and his collection of short stories The Guiltless While in exile he also continued to write on politics and work on mass psychology similar to Elias Canetti and Hannah Arendt His essay on mass behaviour remained unfinished Broch s work on mass psychology was intended to form part of more ambitious project to defend democracy human rights and human dignity as irreducible ethical absolutes in a postreligious age 7 From the 15th of August to the 15th of September 1939 Hermann Broch lived at the Albert Einstein House at 112 Mercer Street Princeton New Jersey when the Einsteins were on vacation 8 From 1942 to 1948 Broch lived in an attic apartment in Eric and Lili Kahler s house at One Evelyn Place in Princeton New Jersey 9 Broch died in 1951 in New Haven Connecticut He is buried in Killingworth Connecticut in the cemetery on Roast Meat Hill Road He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950 10 Work EditBroch s first major literary work was the trilogy The Sleepwalkers Die Schlafwandler published in three volumes from 1930 to 1932 Broch takes the degeneration of values as his theme citation needed The trilogy has been praised by Milan Kundera whose writing has been greatly influenced by Broch 11 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 EditDie 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 Grosse 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 Enttauschung 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 Lutzeler Frankfurt am Main Suhrkamp 1974 1981 KW 1 Die Schlafwandler Eine Romantrilogie KW 2 Die unbekannte Grosse Roman KW 3 Die Verzauberung Roman KW 4 Der Tod des Vergil Roman KW 5 Die Schuldlosen Roman in elf Erzahlungen 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 EditExilliteraturNotes Edit Broch Hermann 1886 1951 Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism www rem routledge com Retrieved 2021 09 24 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint url status link A Companion to the Works of Hermann Broch Boydell and Brewer Retrieved 2021 09 24 Lutzeler 1985 p 51 Hermann Broch Daniel Brody Briefwechsel 1930 1951 Lutzeler Paul Michael 1987 Hermann Broch A Biography Quartet ISBN 978 0 7043 2604 0 Winkler Michael 1982 Exile The Writer s Experience Vol 99 University of North Carolina Press pp 141 156 doi 10 5149 9781469658421 spalek ISBN 9781469658421 JSTOR 10 5149 9781469658421 spalek Bartram Graham McGaughey Sarah 2019 A Companion to the Works of Hermann Broch Camden House p 8 Lutzeler Paul Michael 2011 Hermann Broch eine Biographie Suhrkamp Verlag p 251 ISBN 9783518751015 Late in the summer of 1939 Einstein rented a cottage on Nassau Point in Cutchogue New York so that he could put his sailboat in Horshoe Cove In Exile Princeton University Department of German Nomination 20archive April 2020 Salmon Interviewed by Christian 1984 The Art of Fiction No 81 The Paris Review Interviews Vol Summer 1984 no 92 ISSN 0031 2037 Retrieved 2021 09 24 Peters George F 1977 The Death of Virgil Ein Englisches Gedicht Modern Austrian Literature 10 1 43 54 ISSN 0026 7503 JSTOR 24645661 Lutzeler 1985 pp 294 295 Book Reviews Sites Romance Fantasy Fiction Kirkus Reviews Retrieved 2021 09 27 Lutzeler 1985 p 213 Lutzeler 1985 pp 218 220 Lutzeler 1985 pp 235 242 Lutzeler 1985 p 243 O Hara J D 1974 04 21 The Guiltless The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 2021 09 24 References EditLutzeler Paul Michael 1985 Hermann Broch Eine Biographie Frankfurt am Main Suhrkamp Verlag ISBN 3 518 03572 X Lutzeler Paul Michael 2011 Hermann Broch und die Moderne Roman Menschenrecht Biographie Munchen Wilhelm Fink ISBN 978 3 7705 5101 9 Further reading EditGraham 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 Lutzeler ed Hermann Broch Handbuch DeGruyter Berlin and Boston 2015 ISBN 978 3 11 029556 6External links EditPetri 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 Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hermann Broch Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Hermann Broch amp oldid 1166265534, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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