Mountain Novel, Hitler Novel
D.A.N. Jones, 1 October 1987
The Spell
by Hermann Broch, translated by H.F. Broch de Rothermann.
Deutsch, 391 pp., £11.95, May 1987,0 233 98049 0 Show More
by Hermann Broch, translated by H.F. Broch de Rothermann.
Deutsch, 391 pp., £11.95, May 1987,
Hermann Broch: A Biography
by Paul Michael Lützeler, translated by Janice Furness.
Quartet, 329 pp., £25, June 1987,0 7043 2604 3 Show More
by Paul Michael Lützeler, translated by Janice Furness.
Quartet, 329 pp., £25, June 1987,
“... readable – and haunting – as the stories of Walter De La Mare, say, or as Emily Brontë. Secondly, it is a reflection on the largest public event in Broch’s life – the takeover of Germany and Austria by the Nazis, heralding their attempt to conquer the world, using ‘crowd-psychology’. Thirdly, it is uncompleted, though it may not ... ”