Mountain Novel, Hitler Novel
D.A.N. Jones, 1 October 1987
The Spell
by Hermann Broch, translated by H.F. Broch de Rothermann.
Deutsch, 391 pp., £11.95, May 1987,0 233 98049 0 Show More
by Hermann Broch, translated by H.F. Broch de Rothermann.
Deutsch, 391 pp., £11.95, May 1987,
Hermann Broch: A Biography
by Paul Michael Lützeler, translated by Janice Furness.
Quartet, 329 pp., £25, June 1987,0 7043 2604 3 Show More
by Paul Michael Lützeler, translated by Janice Furness.
Quartet, 329 pp., £25, June 1987,
“... The first thing to notice about The Spell is that it is a good, readable story. Hermann Broch is considered ‘very hard to read’, wrote Martin Seymour-Smith in his useful guide, Novels and Novelists. ‘He used most of the Modernist technical devices available to him, but mainly stream of consciousness.’ Broch’s work has often attracted comments like that and they sound, to the general reader, like the kiss of death ... ”
