The Guiltless - Couverture souple

Broch, Hermann

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0810160781 ISBN 13 : 9780810160781

Editeur : Northwestern University Press, 2000

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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 Günter Grass's Tin Drum and has edited translated novels and plays by Bertolt Brecht, Hermann Hesse, and Erich Maria Remarque.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Northwestern University Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0810160781
• ISBN 13: 9780810160781
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 292
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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