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Detalhes da ObraThe Sleepwalkers de Hermann Broch (1932)
![]() Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. This is my second reading of this masterpiece. I continue to be amazed at how these novels transition from romantic nostalgia to deep philosophical modernism. With Broch, one reaches the boundary of what can be done with literary fiction. ( ![]() > « La première partie est délibérément romantique, la deuxième est écrite selon les procédés naturalistes alors que la dernière procède d'une technique voisine de celle de Joyce dont l'écrivain fut l'ami. Cette tentative se justifie par l'objectif de l'auteur qui veut ainsi rejoindre une réalité plus vaste que celle qui serait accessible à une seule conscience. Sans avoir la qualité d'intériorité de La mort de Virgile, ce gros roman demeure considérable dans la littérature allemande contemporaine.» - amazon.fr -- Cet ouvrage dont l'action se situe entre 1888 et 1918, raconte la vie de petites gens qui cheminent tout doucement, tel des somnambules vers la première guerre mondiale. L'auteur y inclus un «Traité de la dégradation des valeurs» qui peut se lire à la lumières des événements contemporains. --François Marquis, St-Adolphe d'Howard (ICI.Radio-Canada.ca) Ok, commentiamo su I sonnambuli... (E chi sono io per discettare su cotanto libro?) Si incomincia col sorriso, quasi a ritmo di walzer. La prosa di Broch massaggia le celluline grigie scorrendo sulla pagina tersa, nitida (chiedo umilmente scusa se, per rendere l'idea, sotto sforzo, dovessi esagerare con le castronerie) ma poi il magnetismo e la tensione aumentano. Gravitano, eterodiretti, come sonnambuli, i personaggi e, come in un vortice, la pagina cattura anche noi lettori. Il peso specifico delle ultime pagine del terzo romanzo della trilogia è più alto del piombo (l'allegoria e il simbolismo che trovavano spazio nelle prime due parti ormai vengono messe da parte e ci troviamo davanti pagine di filosofia pura con qualche accenno e qualche rimando alle vicende precedentemente narrate). E' una lettura che lascia il segno. Una bella esperienza. Mi taccio. 3.75. I really loved the first book of the trilogy, found the second OK, and then felt as if the third degenerated into something I couldn't put my finger on– but maybe that last development was exactly what the author had in mind. Excerpted from the epic sex scene around p. 250 "[...] he flowed boundlessly into her, yearning to enter into her who was no longer a woman to him but a re-won heritage wrested from the unknown, the matrix of life, annihilating his ego by transcending its confines till it was featureless and submerged in its own enlargement." sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
"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. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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