When Hermann Broch began the work of completing and publishing his first major literary work, the trilogy Die Schlafwandler, in the early 1930s, French and English were the two languages into which he wanted his work to be...
Are there really black Germans? Who are they? Such were the student questions after a screening of Oliver Hardt's (Hardt & Brunn, 2005) documentary on blacks living in Germany, Black Deutschland. Hardt's German-language...
Covers the major modernist literary works of Broch and constitutes the first comprehensive introduction in English to his political, cultural, aesthetic, and philosophical writings.
In the shadow of the Alpine mountain Kuppron, a country doctor decides to record the events in the two villages of Ober- and Uterkuppron (Upper and Lower Kuppron) of the previous year in an attempt "des Wissens und des...
In the third volume of Hermann Broch's trilogy, Die Schlafwandler , a woman walks barefoot through her house and garden as World War I ends. The woman, Hanna Wendling, is dressed in a white nightgown illuminated by the fires...
Auf den ersten Blick lässt die langjährige Beziehung zwischen Hermann Broch und Ea von Allesch (1875-1953) weniger auf eine literarische Freundschaft als auf eine ungestüme Liebesaffäre schließen. Als Broch von Allesch 1917...
Seit der 1986 veröffentlichten Broch-Bibliographie von Klaus W. Jonas in dem von Paul Michael Lützeler herausgegebenen Suhrkamp-Band Hermann Broch gab es in der Forschung zwar weitere Einblicke in die Literatur zu Broch und...
In the years 1930-32, as totalitarian regimes and movements were tightening their grip on much of Europe, the Munich- and Zurich-based Rhein-Verlag published the three successive parts of Die Schlafwandler (The Sleepwalkers,...
In his unfinished novel Amerika or The Man who Disappeared, Franz Kafka describes the futility of accomplishing a task, as he so often does in his literary work. Here, though, failure occurs in an unusual place - an...
On December 22, 1931, after writing often to Edwin and Willa Muir over the course of that year about their translation of his first major literary accomplishment, Die Schlafwandler (The Sleepwalkers), Broch writes Willa about...
