The Times Literary Supplement is the most influential British literary journal. Since its reviews both reflect and shape opinion, a study of its reviews of Broch's work helps to explain why his novels ...

Though best known to American scholars as an unsung master novelist (The Death of Virgil; The Sleepwalkers), Austrian-born Broch (1886-1951) also penned challenging, provocative essays. The six ...

THE SLEEPWALKERS (648 pp.)—Hermann Broch—Pantheon ($5). If any readers have any nostalgic hankerings for the literary days of the early ’30s, The Sleepwalkers should make them think again. Its reissue ...

THE DEATH OF VIRGIL — Hermann Broch—Pantheon Books ($5.50). THE PINE TREE AND THE MOLE—Enzio Taddei—Dial ($2.50). The ships of the imperial squadron were heading for the Adriatic port of Brundisium ...

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Jean-Baptiste Wicar, "Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus, Octavia, and Livia," circa 1790 (image: Wikimedia Commons) The Austrian novelist Hermann Broch dreaded the rise of Hitler, and with good ...