The Sleepwalkers (Vintage International)

by Hermann Broch

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"Broch performs with an impeccable virtuosity." --Aldous Huxley

With his epic trilogy, Hermann Broch established himself as one of the great innovators of modern literature, a visionary writer-philosopher equivalent of James Joyce, Thomas Mann, or Robert Musil. Even as he grounded his narratives in the intimate daily life of Germany, Broch was identifying the oceanic changes that would shortly sweep that life into the abyss.
 
Whether he is writing about a neurotic army officer (The Romantic), a disgruntled bookkeeper and would-be assassin (The Anarchist), or an opportunistic war-deserter (The Realist), Broch immerses himself in the twists of his characters’ psyches, and at the same time soars above them, to produce a prophetic portrait of a world tormented by its loss of faith, morals, and reason.
  • ISBN10 0679764062
  • ISBN13 9780679764069
  • Publish Date 30 January 1996
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 24 November 2015
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Random House USA Inc
  • Imprint Vintage Books