Tag: The Romantic
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Despite half a century’s engagement with literature, Hermann Broch (1886-1951) was completely new to me. Between 1931 and 1932 he published a trilogy of self-contained novels, collectively called ‘The Sleepwalkers’. Together they span a period of thirty years, set in 1888, 1903 and 1918 respectively. Each is intended to capture the zeitgeist: in 1888 this…

