The Sleepwalkers

"Broch performs with an impeccable virtuosity." --Aldous Huxley

With his epic trilogy, Hermann Broch established himself as one of the great innovators of modern literature, a visionary writer-philosopher equivalent of James Joyce, Thomas Mann, or Robert Musil. Even as he grounded his narratives in the intimate daily life of Germany, Broch was identifying the oceanic changes that would shortly sweep that life into the abyss.

Whether he is writing about a neurotic army officer (The Romantic), a disgruntled bookkeeper and would-be assassin (The Anarchist), or an opportunistic war-deserter (The Realist), Broch immerses himself in the twists of his characters' psyches, and at the same time soars above them, to produce a prophetic portrait of a world tormented by its loss of faith, morals, and reason.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01/30/1996
ISBN: 9780679764069
Pages: 656
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 7.94h x 5.15w x 1.19d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 01/01/1996 pg. 69
New York Times 03/24/1996 pg. 28