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Title: The Guiltless by Hermann Broch, Ralph Manheim ISBN: 0-8101-6078-1 Publisher: Northwestern University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A study on indifference
Comment: This novel was born out of several previous short novellas, which Broch weaved together, adding new chapters and orderered to tell one multilayered story, a rich, complex and deep one. It is the story of A., a Dutch financier who lives in Germany. The three parts of the book correspond to the years 1913, 1923 and 1933. Besides portraying the pre-Hitlerian Germany, it is a metaphysical novel, in the strictest sense of the concept. The fundamental subject is indifference as an attitude towards life. "A" is indifferent to practically everything, including the suffering of his lover and, of course, political and social problems. The book is called "The guiltless" because no one assumes themselves as responsible for the dangerous path Germany was following in those years. However, "A" will pay a price for his indifference.
This novel is, then, a reflection on the social environment that led to Nazism. Broch is a dense but good writer, and I think this novel is recommended to any serious lovers of literature, but also for those interested in observing a recreation and a meditation on Germany in those three crucial decades for the world.
Rating: 5
Summary: Broch unplugged
Comment: Arguably Broch's best novel. Not as overwrought as 'Death of Virgil', nor as tangential as 'The Sleepwalkers'. Here he finally cuts deep into the German mind tha lead to the horrors of WWII with lessons for all mankind. Brilliant.
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Title: The Unknown Quantity by Hermann Broch, Willa, Edwin Muir, Sidney Feshbach, Willa Muir ISBN: 081016082X Publisher: Northwestern University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Geist and Zeitgeist: The Spirit in an Unspiritual Age by Hermann Broch, John Hargraves ISBN: 158243168X Publisher: Counterpoint Press Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: The Confusions of Young Törless by Robert Musil, Shaun Whiteside, J. M. Coetzee ISBN: 0142180009 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 28 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Five Women (Verba Mundi) by Robert Musil, Eithne Wilkins, Ernst Kaiser, Frank Kermode ISBN: 1567920756 Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz, Danuta Borchardt ISBN: 0300082401 Publisher: Yale Nota Bene Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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