Hermann Broch





Hermann Broch

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born
December 13, 1901 in Vienna, Austria

died
May 30, 1951

gender
male


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Austrian writer, considered one of the major Modernists.


Average rating: 4.15 · 533 ratings · 56 reviews · 39 distinct works
The Sleepwalkers
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4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 224 ratings — published 1932 — 13 editions
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Death Of Virgil
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4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 165 ratings — published 1945 — 16 editions
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The Guiltless
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3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1950 — 7 editions
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Spell
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3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1976 — 6 editions
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The Unknown Quantity
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3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1961 — 4 editions
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Pasenow oder die Romantik
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1931 — 5 editions
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A Criada Zerlina
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3.36 of 5 stars 3.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1950 — 2 editions
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Geist and Zeitgeist
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3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions
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The Anarchist
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1931 — 5 editions
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1974 — 4 editions
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More books by Hermann Broch…
“… for overstrong was the command to hold fast to each smallest particle of time, to the smallest particle of every circumstance, and to embody all of them in memory as if they could be preserved in memory through all deaths for all times.”
Hermann Broch, Death Of Virgil

“The maker of kitsch does not create inferior art, he is not an incompetent or a bungler, he cannot be evaluated by aesthetic standards; rather, he is ethically depraved, a criminal willing radical evil. And since it is radical evil that is manifest here, evil per se, forming the absolute negative pole of every value-system, kitsch will always be evil, not just kitsch in art, but kitsch in every value-system that is not an imitation system.”
Hermann Broch

“Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.”
Hermann Broch

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