The Sleepwalkers
Author: Hermann Broch
Desc: 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.