skip to content
The death of Virgil
ClosePreview this item

The death of Virgil

Author: Hermann Broch; Jean Starr Untermeyer
Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 1995.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : English : 1st Vintage International edView all editions and formats
Summary:
It is the reign of the Emperor Augustus, and Publius Vergilius Maro, the poet of the Aeneid and Caesar's enchanter, has been summoned to the palace, where he will shortly die. Out of the last hours of Virgil's life and the final stirrings of his consciousness, the Austrian writer Hermann Broch fashioned one of the great works of twentieth-century modernism, a book that embraces an entire world and renders it with an  Read more...
Rating:

(not yet rated) 0 with reviews - Be the first.

 

Find a copy in the library

Retrieving... Finding libraries that hold this item...

Details

Genre/Form: Fiction
Named Person: Virgil
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Hermann Broch; Jean Starr Untermeyer
ISBN: 0679755489 9780679755487
OCLC Number: 31011831
Description: 493 p. ; 22 cm.
Other Titles: Tod des Vergil.
Responsibility: Hermann Broch ; translated by Jean Starr Untermeyer.
More information:

Abstract:

It is the reign of the Emperor Augustus, and Publius Vergilius Maro, the poet of the Aeneid and Caesar's enchanter, has been summoned to the palace, where he will shortly die. Out of the last hours of Virgil's life and the final stirrings of his consciousness, the Austrian writer Hermann Broch fashioned one of the great works of twentieth-century modernism, a book that embraces an entire world and renders it with an immediacy that is at once sensual and profound. Begun while Broch was imprisoned in a German concentration camp, The Death of Virgil is part historical novel and part prose poem -- and always an intensely musical and immensely evocative meditation on the relation between life and death, the ancient and the modern.

Reviews

User-contributed reviews
Retrieving weRead reviews...
Retrieving GoodReads reviews...
Retrieving Amazon reviews...

Tags

Be the first.
Confirm this request

You may have already requested this item. Please select Ok if you would like to proceed with this request anyway.

Close Window

Please sign in to WorldCat 

Don't have an account? You can easily create a free account.