num_pages: 656
description: With his epic trilogy, The Sleepwalkers, Hermann Broch established himself as one of the great innovators of modern literature, a visionary writer-philosopher the equal of James Joyce, Thomas Mann, or Robert Musil. Even as he grounded his narratives in the intimate daily life of Germany, Broch was identifying the oceanic changes that would shortly sweep that life into the abyss.Whether he is writing about a neurotic army officer The Romantic, a disgruntled bookkeeper and would-be assassin The Anarchist, or an opportunistic war-deserter The Realist, Broch immerses himself in the twists of his characters psyches, and at the same time soars above them, to produce a prophetic portrait of a world tormented by its loss of faith, morals, and reason.
language: English
title: The Sleepwalkers
titlecomplete: The Sleepwalkers
genres: Classics, Philosophy, Novels, German Literature, Germany, 20th Century, Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 1425
places: Germany
series: The Sleepwalkers
publisher: Vintage