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Death Of Virgil The by Hermann Broch
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Out of the last hours of Virgil's life and the final stirrings of his consciousness, Hermann Broch fashioned one of the great works of 20th-century modernism, a book that embraces an entire world and renders it with an immediacy that is at once sensual and profound.
The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International
Begun while the author was imprisoned in a German concentration camp, this extraordinary and profound novel is widely regarded as one of the great works of 20th-century modernism. A work that is part historical novel and part prose poem, it recreates the last 18 hours on the life of Virgil, author of th ...Show more
The Sleepwalkers by Hermann Broch; Willa Muir (Translator); Edwin Muir (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
"Broch performs with an impeccable virtuosity." --Aldous Huxley With his epic trilogy, Hermann Broch established himself as one of the great innovators of modern literature, a visionary writer-philosopher equivalent of James Joyce, Thomas Mann, or Robert Musil. Even as he grounded his narratives in ...Show more
War and the Iliad by Simone Weil; Rachel Bespaloff; Hermann Broch; Christopher Benfey (Introduction by); Mary McCarthy (Translator)
Category: Philosophy and Religion
War and the Iliad is a perfect introduction to the range of Homer's art as well as a provocative and rewarding demonstration of the links between literature, philosophy, and questions of life and death. Simone Weil's The Iliad, or the Poem of Force is one of her most celebrated works--an inspired an ...Show more
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