The Death of Virgil Read By Hermann Broch
| Title | : | The Death of Virgil |
| Author | : | Hermann Broch |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Page | : | 496 pages |
| ISBN | : | 0679755489 |
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 emb 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
about Author
Broch was born in Vienna to a prosperous Jewish family and worked for some time in his family s factory in Teesdorf, though he maintained his literary interests privately He attended a technical college for textile manufacture and a spinning and weaving college Later, in 1927, he sold the textile factory and decided to study mathematics, philosophy and psychology at the University of Vienna In Broch was born in Vienna to a prosperous Jewish family and worked for some time in his family s factory in Teesdorf, though he maintained his literary interests privately He attended a technical college for textile manufacture and a spinning and weaving college Later, in 1927, he sold the textile factory and decided to study mathematics, philosophy and psychology at the University of Vienna In 1909 he converted to Roman Catholicism and married Franziska von Rothermann, the daughter of a knighted manufacturer This marriage dured until 1923 He started as a full time writer when he was 40 When The sleepwalkers , his first novel, was published, he was 45 The year was 1931.In 1938, when the nazis annexed Austria, he emigrated to Britain after he was briefly arrested After this, he moved to the United States In his exile, he helped other persecuted jewsIn 1945 was published his masterpiece, The Dead of Virgil After this, he started an essay on mass behaviour, which remained unfinished.Broch died in 1951 in New Haven, Connecticut He was nominated for the Nobel Prize and considered one of the major Modernists 
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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, w
496 pagesHermann Broch
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