Hermann Broch (Author of The Death of Virgil)

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Hermann Broch

Born

in Vienna, Austria

November 01, 1886

Died

May 30, 1951

Genre

Fiction

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Broch was born in Vienna to a prosperous Jewish family and worked for some time in his family's factory in Teesdorf, though he maintained his literary interests privately. He attended a technical college for textile manufacture and a spinning and weaving college. Later, in 1927, he sold the textile factory and decided to study mathematics, philosophy and psychology at the University of Vienna.

In 1909 he converted to Roman Catholicism and married Franziska von Rothermann, the daughter of a knighted manufacturer. This marriage dured until 1923.

He started as a full-time writer when he was 40. When "The Sleepwalkers," his first novel, was published, he was 45. The year was 1931.

In 1938, when the Nazis annexed Austria, he emigrated to Britain ...more

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	The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch, Jean Starr Untermeyer (Translator) 4.14 avg rating — 1,682 ratings — published 1945 — 94 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sleepwalkers (The Sleepwalkers, #1-3) by Hermann Broch, Edwin Muir (Translator), Willa Muir (Translator) 4.09 avg rating — 1,567 ratings — published 1931 — 64 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	螣喂违蟺谓慰尾维蟿蔚蟼: 1888, 螤维蟽蔚谓慰尾萎慰蟻慰渭伪谓蟿喂蟽渭蠈蟼 (螣喂违蟺谓慰尾维蟿蔚蟼, #1) by Hermann Broch, 螝蠋蟽蟿伪蟼螝慰蠀谓蟿慰蠉蟻畏蟼 (Translator) 3.90 avg rating — 418 ratings — published 1931 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Spell by Hermann Broch, H.F. Broch De Rothermann (Translator) 3.87 avg rating — 359 ratings — published 1935 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Guiltless by Hermann Broch, Michael Hathaway (Primary Contributor), Ralph Manheim (Translator) 3.76 avg rating — 315 ratings — published 1950 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anarchist (The Sleepwalkers, #2) by Hermann Broch, James White (Introduction), Willa Muir (Translator) 3.99 avg rating — 271 ratings — published 1931 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	螣喂违蟺谓慰尾维蟿蔚蟼: 1918, 围慰蠉纬魏蔚谓伪慰蠀萎慰蟻蔚伪位喂蟽渭蠈蟼 (螣喂违蟺谓慰尾维蟿蔚蟼, #3) by Hermann Broch, 螝蠋蟽蟿伪蟼螝慰蠀谓蟿慰蠉蟻畏蟼 (Translator) 4.20 avg rating — 164 ratings — published 1932 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unknown Quantity by Hermann Broch, Sidney Feshbach (Afterword), Willa Muir (Translator) 3.57 avg rating — 168 ratings — published 1933 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Criada Zerlina (Biblioteca de Ver茫o, #19) by Hermann Broch, Suzana Mu帽oz (罢谤补诲耻莽茫辞) 3.32 avg rating — 125 ratings — published 1949 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hugo von Hofmannsthal and His Time: The European Imagination, 1860-1920 by Hermann Broch, Michael P. Steinberg (Translator) 4.16 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1974 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.”
― Hermann Broch

tags: ocean, sea

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“...in the intoxication of falling, man was prone to believe himself propelled upward.”
― Hermann Broch, The Death of Virgil

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“鈥� for overstrong was the command to hold fast to each smallest particle of time, to the smallest particle of every circumstance, and to embody all of them in memory as if they could be preserved in memory through all deaths for all times.”
― Hermann Broch, The Death of Virgil

tags: death, memory, time

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Ekim ay谋nda a艧a臒谋daki kitaplardan hangisini grupla birlikte okumak istersiniz?

鲍迟补苍莽 - J.M. Coetzee 1999, 258 sayfa

22 votes 37.3%

脟别惫别苍驳耻谤 - Andrei Platonov 1928, 416 sayfa

15 votes 25.4%

叠眉测眉濒别苍尘别 - Hermann Broch 1976, 375 sayfa

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Madde 22 - Joseph Heller 1961, 618 sayfa

11 votes 18.6%

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