Hermann Broch Libros

La trilogía de Los sonámbulos, uno de los pilares de la literatura europea del siglo XX, descubre a tres seres arrojados al incandescente fragor de la historia, incautos defensores de unos valores ya caducos. Así, el personaje principal de Pasenow o el romanticismo es el arquetipo del hombre abúlico y soñador que busca en la carrera militar una falsa seguridad que le proteja del desorden del mundo. Esch o la anarquía narra la historia de un empleado de comercio dominado por la idea de emigrar a América, símbolo de libertad y redención. Finalmente, Huguenau o el realismo nos presenta la encarnación de la lógica y la moral propias del comerciante, por ellas convertido impunemente en desertor, arribista y asesino.

Segunda novela de la trilogía Los sonámbulos, obra capital de la literatura europea del siglo XX que Hermann Broch escribió entre 1931 y 1932, Esch o la anarquía es la historia de un empleado de comercio dominado por la idea de emigrar a América, símbolo de libertad y redención. Impulsado por un ansia de expiación y sacrificio que borre las injusticias del pasado, su historia muestra que el hombre que quiere el bien y la justicia persigue lo absoluto y que esta búsqueda de la plenitud en lo real no es más que un sueño irrealizable.

Hermann Broch achieved international recognition for his brilliant use of innovative literary techniques to present the entire range of human experience, from the biological to the metaphysical. Concerned with the problem of ethical responsibility in a world with no unified system of values, he turned to literature as the appropriate form for considering those human problems not subject to rational treatment.Late in life, Broch began questioning his artistic pursuits and turned from literature to devote himself to political theory. While he is well known and highly regarded throughout the world as a novelist, he was equally accomplished as an essayist. These six essays give us a fascinating glimpse into the mind of one of the twentieth century's most original thinkers.

Richard Hieck had a difficult childhood in early-20th-century Germany. With his withdrawn mother and his enigmatic father, he studies mathematics in an attempt to find the discipline he craves. Broch examines the impossibility of life within a society whose values are in decay. schovat popis

It is the reign of the Emperor Augustus, and Publius Vergilius Maro, the poet of the Aeneid and Caesar's enchanter, has been summoned to the palace, where he will shortly die. Out of the last hours of Virgil's life and the final stirrings of his consciousness, the Austrian writer Hermann Broch fashioned one of the great works of twentieth-century modernism, a book that embraces an entire world and renders it with an immediacy that is at once sensual and profound. Begun while Broch was imprisoned in a German concentration camp, The Death of Virgil is part historical novel and part prose poem -- and always an intensely musical and immensely evocative meditation on the relation between life and death, the ancient and the modern.

Murder, lust, shame, hypocrisy, and suicide are at the center of The Guiltless, Hermann Broch's novel about the disintegration of European society in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Broch's characters -- an apathetic man who can barely remember his own name (Broch mostly refers to him as A.); a high-school teacher and his lover who return from the brink of a suicide pact to carry on a dishonest relationship; Zerline, the lady's maid who enslaves her mistresses, prostitutes the young country girl Melitta to gentleman A., and metes out her own justice against the "empty wickedness" of her betters -- are trapped in their indifference, prisoners of a sort of "wakeful somnolence". These men and women may mention the "imbecile Hitler", yet they prefer a nap or sexual encounter to any social action. In Broch's mind this kind of ethical perversity and political apathy paved the way for Nazism.Broch believed that writing can purify, and by revealing Germany's underlying guilt he hoped to purge indifference from his own and future generations. In The Guiltless, Broch captures how apathy and ennui -- very human failings -- evolve into something dehumanizing and dangerous.