Introduction: Broch, Our Contemporary

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Editor’s Preface xi
4. Introduction: Broch, Our Contemporary 1
5. I. Hermann Broch. The Critic
6. Kitsch and Art: Broch’s Essay “Das Böse im Wertsystem der Kunst” 13
7. Erneuerung des Theaters?: Broch’s Ideas on Drama in Context 21
8. “Der Rhythmus der Ideen”: On the Workings of Broch’s Cultural Criticism 37
9. “Kurzum die Hölle”: Broch’s Early Political Text “Die Straße” 55
10. Visionaries in Exile: Broch’s Cooperation with G. A. Borgese and Hannah Arendt 67
11. Fear in Culture: Broch’s Massenwahntheorie 89
12. II. Hermann Broch. The Novelist and Dramatist
13. Inscriptions of Power: Broch’s Narratives of History in Die Schlafwandler 107
14. The German Colonial Aftermath: Broch’s 1903. Esch oder die Anarchie 125
15. Neither Sane nor Insane: Ernst Kretschmer’s Influence on Broch’s Early Novels 137
16. Non-Contemporaneity of the Contemporaneous: Broch’s Novel Die Verzauberung 147
17. “Great Theater” and “Soap Bubbles”: Broch the Dramatist 159
18. A Farewell to Art: Poetic Reflection in Broch’s Der Tod des Vergil 187
19. Poetry as Perjury: The End of Art in Broch’s Der Tod des Vergil and Celan’s Atemwende 201
20. “Beyond Words”: The Translation of Broch’s Der Tod des Vergil by Jean Starr Untermeyer 217
21. Between Guilt and Fall: Broch’s Die Schuldlosen 231
22. Broch Reception in Japan: Shin’ichiro Nakamura and Die Schuldlosen 245
23. Notes on the Contributors 253
24. Index of Broch’s Works 257
25. Index of Names 259