Hermann Broch
Hermann Broch · Arts & Literature
Austrian modernist writer whose novel The Death of Virgil is a landmark of 20th-century literature.
1886, Vienna, Austria-Hungary — 1951, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Austria · United States
Hermann Broch is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Austrian modernist writer whose novel The Death of Virgil is a landmark of 20th-century literature.
Broch was an Austrian modernist writer whose novels 'The Sleepwalkers' and especially 'The Death of Virgil' are landmarks of twentieth-century literature, fusing narrative with philosophy and lyric meditation. Born into a Jewish family in Vienna, he was briefly imprisoned after the Nazi annexation of Austria and emigrated to the United States, where he also wrote on mass psychology and human rights.
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Austrian modernist writer whose novel The Death of Virgil is a landmark of 20th-century literature.
Source: IMDb (Jewish Actors list)
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