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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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Average rating: 4.02 · 5,930 ratings · 670 reviews · 124 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch, Jean Starr Untermeyer (Translator) 4.14 avg rating — 1,585 ratings — published 1945 — 91 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 Sleepwalkers (The Sleepwalkers, #1-3) by Hermann Broch, Edwin Muir (Translator), Willa Muir (Translator) 4.08 avg rating — 1,504 ratings — 63 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) 3.90 avg rating — 388 ratings — published 1931 — 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
	The Guiltless by Hermann Broch, Michael Hathaway (Primary Contributor), Ralph Manheim (Translator) 3.78 avg rating — 298 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
	The Spell by Hermann Broch, H.F. Broch De Rothermann (Translator) 3.87 avg rating — 282 ratings — published 1976 — 25 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 — 261 ratings — published 1931 — 24 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 — 157 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) 3.56 avg rating — 158 ratings — published 1933 — 19 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) 3.37 avg rating — 117 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) 4.17 avg rating — 42 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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The Sleepwalkers (3 books)
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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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Ekim 2021 - Modern Klasik Okuması
Ekim ayında aşağıdaki kitaplardan hangisini grupla birlikte okumak istersiniz?

Utanç - J.M. Coetzee 1999, 258 sayfa

22 votes 37.3%

Çevengur - Andrei Platonov 1928, 416 sayfa

15 votes 25.4%

Büyülenme - Hermann Broch 1976, 375 sayfa

11 votes 18.6%

Madde 22 - Joseph Heller 1961, 618 sayfa

11 votes 18.6%

59 total votes

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