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Hermann Broch (German:; 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).
May 26, 2024 · Hermann Broch (born Nov. 1, 1886, Vienna, Austria—died May 30, 1951, New Haven, Conn., U.S.) was an Austrian writer who achieved international recognition for his multidimensional novels, in which he used innovative literary techniques to present a wide range of human experience.
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Sep 20, 2020 · Learn about the life and works of Hermann Broch, a major German novelist of the twentieth century who explored the crisis of Western culture and the human condition. Discover his use of psychological and historical techniques in The Sleepwalkers, The Death of Virgil, and other novels.
Hermann Broch was born in November 1886 in Vienna. His father was a textile wholesaler and tried to push his son into business. Broch studied textile engineering, travelled to the United States to learn about cotton production and went to work in his father’s factory.
Jan 20, 2023 · Introduction: Broch’s Life and Works; 1 Perspectives on Broch’s Die Schlafwandler: Narratives of History and the Self; 2 Hermann Broch and the Dilemma of Literature in the Modern Age; 3 Interrogating Modernity: Hermann Broch’s Postromanticism
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Hermann Broch (1886–1951) was born in Vienna, Austria, where he trained as an engineer and studied philosophy and mathematics. He gradually increased his involvement in the intellectual life of Vienna, becoming acquainted with Ludwig Wittgenstein, Sigmund Freud, and Robert Musil, among others.
