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Hermann Broch

Born

in Vienna, Austria

November 01, 1886

Died

May 30, 1951

Genre

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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 ...more

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	The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch, Jean Starr Untermeyer (Translator) 4.14 avg rating — 1,736 ratings — published 1945	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sleepwalkers (The Sleepwalkers, #1-3) by Hermann Broch, Edwin Muir (Translator), Willa Muir (Translator) 4.09 avg rating — 1,594 ratings — published 1931 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Οι Υπνοβάτες: 1888, Πάσενοβ ή ο ρομαντισμός (Οι Υπνοβάτες, #1) by Hermann Broch, Κώστας Κουντούρης (Translator) 3.91 avg rating — 435 ratings — published 1931 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Spell by Hermann Broch, H.F. Broch De Rothermann (Translator) 3.87 avg rating — 372 ratings — published 1935 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Guiltless by Hermann Broch, Michael Hathaway (Primary Contributor), Ralph Manheim (Translator) 3.76 avg rating — 322 ratings — published 1950 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anarchist (The Sleepwalkers, #2) by Hermann Broch, James White (Introduction), Willa Muir (Translator) 3.99 avg rating — 279 ratings — published 1931 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Οι Υπνοβάτες: 1918, Χούγκεναου ή ο ρεαλισμός (Οι Υπνοβάτες, #3) by Hermann Broch, Κώστας Κουντούρης (Translator) 4.18 avg rating — 170 ratings — published 1932 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unknown Quantity by Hermann Broch, Sidney Feshbach (Afterword), Willa Muir (Translator) 3.59 avg rating — 175 ratings — published 1933 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Criada Zerlina (Biblioteca de Verão, #19) by Hermann Broch, Suzana Muñoz (Tradução) 3.31 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 1949 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hugo von Hofmannsthal and His Time: The European Imagination, 1860-1920 by Hermann Broch, Michael P. Steinberg (Translator) 4.13 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1974 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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

tags: ocean, sea

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“...in the intoxication of falling, man was prone to believe himself propelled upward.”
― Hermann Broch, The Death of Virgil

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“… 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, The Death of Virgil

tags: death, memory, time

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Oldtimer - Klasik Okuma Grubu - Mayıs 2018 Modern Klasiklerden Anketi

Mayıs 2018'de aşağıdaki modern klasiklerden hangisini okuyalım?

Mikhail Bulgakov - Usta ile Margarita, 1967, 471 sayfa

5 votes 9.3%

Margaret Atwood - Damızlık Kızın Öyküsü, 1985, 352 sayfa

5 votes 9.3%

Ursula K. Le Guin - Mülksüzler, 1974, 378 sayfa

5 votes 9.3%

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita, 1955, 364 sayfa

5 votes 9.3%

J.D. Salinger - Çavdar Tarlasında Çocuklar, 1951, 158 sayfa

4 votes 7.4%

Yukio Mishima - Denizi Yitiren Denizci, 1963, 156 sayfa

4 votes 7.4%

Virginia Woolf - Deniz Feneri, 1927, 248 sayfa

4 votes 7.4%

Harper Lee - Bülbülü Öldürmek, 1960, 355 sayfa

3 votes 5.6%

Simone de Beauvoir - Başkalarının Kanı, 1945, 263 sayfa

3 votes 5.6%

José Saramago - İsa'ya Göre İncil, 1991, 388 sayfa

3 votes 5.6%

Sylvia Plath - Sırça Fanus, 1963, 275 sayfa

3 votes 5.6%

Samuel Beckett - Murphy, 1938, 196 sayfa

2 votes 3.7%

Sabahattin Ali - Kuyucaklı Yusuf, 1937, 222 sayfa

2 votes 3.7%

Nathanael West - Çekirgenin Günü, 1939, 190 sayfa

1 vote 1.9%

Grigory Petrov - Beyaz Zambaklar Ülkesinde, 1923, 175 sayfa

1 vote 1.9%

Karl Ove Knausgård - Kavgam, 2009, 492 sayfa

1 vote 1.9%

Andrei Platonov - Çevengur, 1928, 416 sayfa

1 vote 1.9%

Hermann Broch - Vergilius'un Ölümü, 1945, 479 sayfa

1 vote 1.9%

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar - Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü, 1954, 395 sayfa

1 vote 1.9%

Anthony Burgess - Mozart ve Deyyuslar, 1991, 176 sayfa

0 votes 0.0%

Milan Kundera - Varolmanın Dayanılmaz Hafifliği, 1984, 320 sayfa

0 votes 0.0%

İhsan Oktay Anar - Puslu Kıtalar Atlası, 1995, 238 sayfa

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