The Guiltless by Broch, Hermann

The Guiltless (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780810160781)

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The Guiltless by Broch, Hermann

The Guiltless

$19.95
The Guiltless by Broch, Hermann

The Guiltless

$19.95
Format: Paperback
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Murder, lust, shame, hypocrisy, and suicide are at the center of The Guiltless, Hermann Broch's postwar novel about the disintegration of European society in the decades preceding the Second World War. Broch's characters--apathetic, cruel, or indolent--are trapped in their indifference, prisoners of a "wakeful somnolence." They may mention the "imbecile Hitler," yet they prefer sex or a nap to any social action. Broch thought such ethical perversity and political apathy paved the way for Nazism and hoped that by revealing Germany's underlying guilt he could purge indifference from his own and future generations. In The Guiltless, Broch captures how ennui--a very human failing--evolves into something dehumanizing and dangerous.


Author: Hermann Broch
ISBN-10: 0810160781
ISBN-13: 9780810160781
Publisher: Marlboro Press
Language: English
Published: 12/27/2000
Pages: 292
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.57w x 0.72d
By Hermann Broch
By Hermann Broch
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Hermann Broch (1886-1951) had careers as a mathematician, engineer, and director of a Viennese textile firm before publishing his first work, the trilogy Sleepwalkers, in 1930-32. In 1935 he spent 5 months in a Nazi prison; in 1940 he emigrated to the U.S.

Ralph Manheim has translated Danilo Kis's Hourglass and G?ter Grass's Tin Drum and has edited translated novels and plays by Bertolt Brecht, Hermann Hesse, and Erich Maria Remarque.

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