Broch Virgil

Huxley, Aldous, Schriftsteller (1894-1963 ). Masch. Brief mit eigenh. U.
An den Schriftsteller Hermann Broch, der im Genfer Exil lebte. Broch hatte ihn um Hilfe bei Robert Musil gebeten: "[...] I was very glad to hear from you and to know that you are in this country and well. I wish I could help you in regard to Robert Musil; but as I know German very imperfectly and read it only under the stress of necessity - for the business of finding a piece of otherwise unavailable information, never for pleasure - I am as completely ignorant of Musil's work as of most other recent German writing. I think you would have better luck among the professional critics - Edmund Wilson, for example - who make it their business to read works of imaginative literature as they appear - thing which I have time for less and less; as I become increasingly absorbed in the history, the theory and the practical implications of religious mysticism, or the transformation and enlargement of consciousness. What you say of your Death of Virgil sounds interesting indeed. It is very kind of you to offer to let me see the manuscript; unfortunately two difficulties stand in the way, the first mental, connected with my poor knowledge of German, and the second physical, connected with poor vision, which forces me to ration my reading very strictly, and which makes the reading of typescript almost an impossibility. I have recently finished a book, to be published next month ['Grey Eminence', 1941], on one of the strangest figures in European history, Father Joseph, the collaborator of Cardinal Richelieu. Very little has ever been written about this man, and of that little none has stressed the essential point, which is that l'Eminence Grise was an advanced mystic who, in middle life, took to power politics of the most horrifying kind, while attempting at the same time to keep up his religious practices and remain in contact with ultimate reality. Needless to say, he failed in the latter effort and only succeeded in the former - specifically in prolonging the Thirty Years War. His case, when presented with the relevant religious documents, emerges as something quite extraordinary [...]" - Randläsuren.

Pacific Palisades, 701 S Amalfi Drive, 24. VIII. 1941, 4°. 1 Seite. Luftpostpapier.

[SW: Literatur]

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Broch, Hermann. The Death of Virgil. Translated by J. Staar Untermeyer. (New York): Pantheon Books (1945). Rotes OHLwd. (Entwurf: Stefan Salter) m. illustr. Schutzumschl. (Entwurf: Martin Kauffer). Gr. 8°.
Erste Ausgabe. Jonas/Schwarz III, Ü 8; St/T 80; Deutsches Exilarchiv 1, 740; KNLL 3, 199-201. Bereits 6 Monate vor der 1. deutschen Ausgabe im gleichen Verlag [Pantheon = Kurt Wolff], die häufig als die erste Ausgabe bezeichnet wird, ausgeliefert. Durch den früheren Satzbeginn (Dezember 1944 im Gegensatz zu Februar 1945 für die deutsche Ausgabe) und Auslieferung, enthält die englische Ausgabe die ursprünglichere Fassung, da Broch für die spätere deutsche Version noch Textkorrekturen vorgenommen hat. (Vgl. Broch-Brody, Briefwechsel, Sp. 800 ff. und Sp. 839 ff). Mit Nachwort des Übersetzers und Quellenverzeichnis. Umschlag etwas fleckig und mit kleinen Fehlstellen, obere Bandecke etwas gestaucht. Insgesamt gutes, sauberes Expl.
[(SW: Exilliteratur, Kauffer, Martin, Pantheon Books, Salter, Stefan)]

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COHN, DORRIT CLAIRE: THE SLEEPWALKERS - Elucidations of HERMANN BROCH'S trilogy, The Hague / Paris Mouton & Co 1966 ; fester Einband / hard cover; 1. Ed.
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'Stanford Studies in Germanics and Slavics'. Contents: I). Modes of narration. 1). The polyphonic novel. 2). The authorial mode. 3). The rendering of consciousness. 4). The lyric mode. II). The Bertrand figure. 1). The passive protagonist. 2). The wanderer. 3). The hunter and the hunted. 4). Demon and divinity. 5). 'Der Erkennende und der Erkannte'. 6). Prophet and aesthete. 7). Portrait of the artist. 8). The absolute spirit. III). The Ahasverus poem. IV). The sleepwalk as literary symbol. 1). Motif and contexts. 2). Movement toward consciousness. 3). Moments of total freedom. 4). The silent ship. 5). The symbol of the symbol. With foreword, notes, appendix ('The Ahasverus poem') and list of works consulted. Hermann Broch (1886 - 1951) was a 20th century Austrian writer, considered one of the major Modernists. 179 pag. 1st edition Cloth binding 21,5cmx14,5cm; 1st edition

[SW: bertrand ahasverus the death of virgil die schlafwandler pasenow oder, die romantik esch oder die anarchie huguenau oder die sachlichkeit]

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FREEMAN Betty (Chicago 1921): Music people & others, Milano Mazzotta 1987 ISBN: 8820208113
Catalogo delle mostre di Milano, Los Angeles e Brooklyn, 1987-1988. Testo di Daniela Palazzoli. Con 96 fotografie in nero di Betty Freeman. Notizie biografiche sui personaggi fotografati. Testo in italiano e inglese. Tra i personaggi ritratti: Franco Assetto, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Virgil Thomson, Luigi Carluccio, Petere Garland, David Hockney, Henry Miller, Harry Partch, Roy Lichtenstein

8vo pp. 120 circa cover: broch Perfetto (Mint)

[SW: fotografia, photography ritratti, nudi, portraits, nudes]

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