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Covers the major modernist literary works of Broch and constitutes
the first comprehensive introduction in English to his political,
cultural, aesthetic, and philosophical writings. Hermann Broch
(1886-1951) is best known for his two major modernist works, The
Sleepwalkers (3 vols., 1930-1932) and The Death of Virgil (1945),
which frame a lifetime of ethical, cultural, political, and social
thought. A textile manufacturer by trade, Broch entered the
literary scene late in life with an experimental view of the novel
that strove towards totality and vividly depicted Europe's cultural
disintegration. As fascism took over and Broch, a Viennese Jew, was
forced into exile, his view of literature as transformative was
challenged, but his commitment to presenting an ethical view of the
crises of his time was unwavering. An important mentor and
interlocutor for contemporaries such as Arendt and Canetti as well
as a continued inspiration for contemporary authors, Broch wrote to
better understand and shape the political and cultural conditions
for a postfascist world. This volume covers the major literary
works and constitutes the first comprehensive introduction in
English to Broch's political, cultural, aesthetic, and
philosophical writings. Contributors: Graham Bartram, Brechtje
Beuker, GiselaBrude-Firnau, Gwyneth Cliver, Jennifer Jenkins,
Kathleen L. Komar, Paul Michael Lutzeler, Gunther Martens, Sarah
McGaughey, Judith Ryan, Judith Sidler, Galin Tihanov, Sebastian
Wogenstein. Graham Bartram retired as Senior Lecturer in German
Studies at the University of Lancaster, UK. Sarah McGaughey is
Associate Professor of German at Dickinson College, USA. Galin
Tihanov is the George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature
at Queen Mary University of London, UK.
Studies of one of the foremost 20c Austrian writers, as a critic
and as a novelist and dramatist. The Austrian novelist Hermann
Broch ranks with Kafka and Musil among the three greatest
20th-century Austrian novelists and belongs to the century's most
gifted novelists in German from whatever country. He established
his reputation with The Sleepwalkers, a trilogy of political and
philosophical novels. His best-known work is The Death of Virgil, a
long, challenging work in a lyrical, exuberant, and sometimes
nearly incomprehensible style, akind of cerebral
stream-of-consciousness of the dying Virgil. Broch also wrote
extensively about modern art and architecture, Hofmannsthal, and
mass psychology. He has a special connection to Yale, as he lived
the last years of his life there after having escaped Austria in
1938. The participants in the Yale Symposium of April 2001 are
among the world's most prominent Broch scholars. Fourteen of their
presentations have been extensively revised for this volume, which
focuses on Broch as critic and as novelist and dramatist. Topics
include Broch's views on kitsch and art, and on drama; his cultural
criticism; his cooperation with Borgese and Arendt; his theory of
mass psychology; history in his works, Ernst Kretschmer's influence
on him; Virgil and Celan's Atemwende; Jean Starr Untermeyer's
translation of Virgil; guilt and the fall in Those without Guilt;
and Broch reception in Japan. Paul Michael Lutzeler is
Distinguished University Professor of German at Washington
University St. Louis and editor of Broch's collected works.
MATTHIAS KONZETT is associate professor of German at Yale; WILLY
RIEMER is associate professor of German at the University of
Delaware, and CHRISTA SAMMONS is curator of the German collections
of the Beinecke Library at Yale.
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