Death of Virgil: A Novel

Death of Virgil: A Novel

by Hermann Broch
Death of Virgil: A Novel

Death of Virgil: A Novel

by Hermann Broch

Paperback(1st Vintage International ed)

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780679755487
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 01/15/1995
Series: Vintage International
Edition description: 1st Vintage International ed
Pages: 496
Sales rank: 362,792
Product dimensions: 5.18(w) x 7.95(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Hermann Broch (1886–1951) was born in Vienna, Austria, where he trained as an engineer and studied philosophy and mathematics. He gradually increased his involvement in the intellectual life of Vienna, becoming acquainted with Ludwig Wittgenstein, Sigmund Freud, and Robert Musil, among others. The Sleepwalkers was his first major work. In 1938, he was imprisoned as a subversive by the Nazis, but was freed and fled to the United States. In the years before his death, he was researching mass psychology at Yale University. The Death of Virgil originally appeared in 1945; his last major novel, The Guiltless, was published in 1950.
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