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Format: Binding Unknown
ISBN-10: 0710087632
ISBN-13: 9780710087638
Jan 1977
Publisher: Random House Inc
493 pages
Language: English |
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Synopsis
In "The Death of Virgil", Broch creates a new, highly musical, fictional form that lies between the historical novel and the prose poem.
Industry Reviews
"The Death of Virgil (1945) constitutes a marked advance, or prolongation, in the direction indicated by the philosophizing parts of ...earlier work, though with this difference: that the reflections of the dying Virgil, while equally abstract, are largely unargued, they proceed less by logic than by what alas is called 'poetry'....In form The Death of Virgil consists of almost continuous interior monologue, in sentences so long that their beginnings are forgotten before their ends are known....Broch's prose poetry is rather similar to Rilke's poetry deprived of most of what makes it poetry....The main subject for speculation here, the meatiest bone in a voluminous soup of words, is art, beauty, or poetry--and those grave doubts about the prpriety of art which loom large in German writing, from Goethe and before to Thomas Mann and after."
New York Review of Books - Ronald Steel (01/06/1966)
"One of the most extraordinary and profound experiments ever to have been undertaken with the flexible medium of the novel."
Thomas Mann
"Broch is the greatest novelist European literature has produced since Joyce, and 'The Death of Virgil' represents the only genuine technical advance that fiction has made since 'Ulysses'."
George Steiner
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