Death of Virgil

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• splittingTimes · Jun 23, 2018 · Recommends

  …mathematician whose scientific mind applies allegorical dissections over a wide range of existential themes concerning humanity and feelings. The polarity makes it for an extraordinary read. Hermann Broch "The Death of Virgil". The novel creates out of a dying poet a rich, profound vision both of civilization and of primal concerns of all mankind. Austrian authors where on another level in the late 30s and 40s of the 20th…

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• splittingTimes · Dec 19, 2018 · Recommends

  …mathematician whose scientific mind applies allegorical dissections over a wide range of existential themes concerning humanity and feelings. The polarity makes it for an extraordinary read. Hermann Broch "The Death of Virgil". The novel creates out of a dying poet a rich, profound vision both of civilization and of primal concerns of all mankind. Austrian authors where on another level in the late 30s and 40s of the 20th…

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• 50 · Oct 1, 2023 · Recommends

  …web of relationships that can surprise and invigorate us, even after thousands of years "[E]nmeshed in a web of relationships", i.e., intertextuality[1]. Further reading: Hermann Broch's novel, The Death of Virgil, and Simone Weil's lesser known compilation of writings, Intimations of Christianity Among the Ancient Greeks. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertextuality

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• OfSanguineFire · Oct 1, 2023 · Recommends

  The web of relationships extends to music as well. After reading that Broch novel, one might enjoy the cycle of works by Jean Barraqué that took their inspiration from The Death of Virgil.

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• GeoAtreides · Dec 22, 2023 · Mentions

  …difficulty: 0) The autumn of the patriarch, by Marquez 1) Gormenghast series, by Mervyn Peake 2) The third period of Henry James (The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors, and The Golden Bowl). 3) The Death of Virgil, by Hermann Broch I do suggest trying Gormenghast, it's an amazingly written fantasy series.

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• vo2maxer · Aug 10, 2020 · Mentions

  …Solitude, Vanity Fair, and Middlemarch, among others. I have failed at In Search of Lost Time (only finished first volume), The Divine Comedy, The Iliad, The Odyssey, Ulysses (Joyce), Bleak House, The Death of Virgil (Broch), The Sleepwalkers (Broch), Evening Edged in Gold (Lucky to have beautiful original 1980 translation) and 2666. These are a few in a much longer list of notable incompletes. What works of literature…

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