With an introduction by John White and an essay by Milan Kundera, this text is the first part of Hermann Broch's Sleepwalkers trilogy - a portrayal of the neuroses and militarism of late-19th century Germany.

The Romantic (Penguin Modern Classics)

HERMANN BROCH

Penguin Books, Ltd.

The Realist (Penguin Modern Classics)

Hermann Broch (1886-1951) is remembered among English-speaking readers for his novels The Sleepwalkers and The Death of Virgil, and among German-speaking readers for his novels as well as his works on moral and political philosophy, his aesthetic theory, and his varied criticism. This study reveals Broch as a major historian as well, one who believes that true historical understanding requires the faculties of both poet and philosopher.Through an analysis of the changing thought and career of the Austrian poet, librettist, and essaist Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929), Broch attempts to define and analyze the major intellectual issues of the European fin de siècle, a period that he characterizes according to the Nietzschean concepts of the breakdown of rationality and the loss of a central value system. The result is a major examination of European thought as well as a comparative study of political systems and artistic styles.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal and his time: The European imagination, 1860-1920

Literature & Fiction

U. Of Chicago Press

Marius Ratti, a drifter and Hitler-like figure, arrives in a small mountain village, contaminating it with his virulent, pestilential influence, in this parable of Hitler's rise to power

The Spell (Picador Classics)

Picador

The Spell

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

The Sleep Walkers: A Triology

Putnam Pub. Group

Text: English, German (translation)

Sleepwalkers

Interlink Publishing+group Inc

Mild and sensitive Richard Hieck endured a quietly difficult childhood in Germany. But from his father Richard inherited an interest in the night sky, learning to love the constellations and to take comfort in the strength of Orion and the warm radiance of Venus. His choice to pursue mathematics offers him the discipline he craved as a child. Published in 1933, The Unknown Quantity is Hermann Broch's study of the underlying chaos-and finally the impossibility-of life within a society whose values are in decay. As Richard seeks to reconcile the conflicting demands of love and science, of passion and reason, societal and family values begin to undermine him and those in orbit around him.

The Unknown Quantity

Literary

Marlboro Press

• A unique collection of German-language writers bound by a Bohemian sensibility• Canetti is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1981)The literature of the Wiener Moderne exhibits biting social satire and other related aspects, first emanating from Karl Kraus (1874-1936), a prolific writer, difficult to classify, who reminds people of Jonathan Swift. Novelists and essayists Hermann Broch (1886-1951) and Elias Canetti (1905-94), who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981, were likewise marginalized, to a large extent as Jews. Robert Walser (1878-1956) is Swiss, and to a large extent like the other three authors in this collection, had no less a desire to upset the social applecart. Among the works included are substantive selection from Krauss's The Last Days of Mankind and Aphorisms, Bloch's "The Anarchist," selections from Canetti's Crowds and Power and Auto-da-Fe, and Walser's Jakob von Gunten.

Selected Short Writings: Karl Kraus, Hermann Broch, Elias Canetti, Robert Walser (German Library)

elias-canetti

Robert Walser

karl-kraus

History & Criticism

Continuum

During the last eighteen hours of his life, the Roman poet, Virgil, debates destroying the manuscript of his poem, the Aeneid

The Death of Virgil

Contemporary

NORTH POINT PRESS

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