false <![CDATA[Death of Virgil]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167880882m/27426.jpg 27426 11 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. 1798384 1946 Death of Virgil total:53|5:21|4:21|3:7|2:3|1:1| 53 217 167 10 4 0 false false Tue Oct 13 17:47:42 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 17:49:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Aug 16 18:31:35 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 31 20:24:06 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Jun 06 07:55:12 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 07:57:40 -0700 2009
I read it only because it was a gift from a friend.

It is a vomiting of millions of words about "The meaning of it all".

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Poetry was never written in this fashion.
Greatest tribute ever paid to Virgil.
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