{"product_id":"death-of-virgil-isbn-9780679755487","title":"Death of Virgil","description":"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.\"Broch is the greatest novelist European literature has produced since Joyce, and...The Death of Virgil represents the only genuine technical advance that fiction has made since Ulysses.\" -- George Steiner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Hermann Broch belongs in that tradition of great twentieth-century novelists who have transformed, almost beyond recognition, one of the classic art forms of the nineteenth century.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-- Hannah Arendt\u003cb\u003eHermann Broch\u003c\/b\u003e (1886–1951) was born in Vienna, Austria, where he trained as an engineer and studied philosophy and mathematics. He gradually increased his involvement in the intellectual life of Vienna, becoming acquainted with Ludwig Wittgenstein, Sigmund Freud, and Robert Musil, among others. \u003ci\u003eThe Sleepwalkers\u003c\/i\u003e was his first major work. In 1938, he was imprisoned as a subversive by the Nazis, but was freed and fled to the United States. In the years before his death, he was researching mass psychology at Yale University. \u003ci\u003eThe Death of Virgil\u003c\/i\u003e originally appeared in 1945; his last major novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Guiltless\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1950.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301106110693,"sku":"NP9780679755487","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679755487.jpg?v=1767724913","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/death-of-virgil-isbn-9780679755487","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}