Death of Virgil - Hardcover

Broch, Hermann

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0844617423 ISBN 13: 9780844617428

Publisher: Peter Smith Pub Inc, 1976

Synopsis

Book by Broch, Hermann

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

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.

From the Back Cover:

"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

"Hermann Broch belongs in that tradition of great twentieth-century novelists who have transformed, almost beyond recognition, one of the classic art forms of the nineteenth century."

-- Hannah Arendt

About this edition

• Publisher: Peter Smith Pub Inc
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0844617423
• ISBN 13: 9780844617428
• Binding: Hardcover