Nice to hear from Herman Broch. George Steiner introduced him to me in Language and Silence and I have dipped into The Death of Virgil (as I have- I confess- Man Without Qualities; haven't bought the right translation yet...). Will you be discussing Broch in your Musil biography?
1. He is part model for "the young man" in Musil's farce Vinzenz and the Mistress of Important Men
2. Musil was disturbed by Broch's The Sleepwalkers, as he felt it encroached on his own philosophical-novel territory, and Broch did not, he felt, have the requisite philosophical chops.
3. Musil accused Broch of plagiarizing one of his essays, but Broch very graciously denied it without getting angry at Musil.
4. Broch tried to help Musil and his wife emigrate to America, without success.
Nice to hear from Herman Broch. George Steiner introduced him to me in Language and Silence and I have dipped into The Death of Virgil (as I have- I confess- Man Without Qualities; haven't bought the right translation yet...). Will you be discussing Broch in your Musil biography?
Broch does have a few cameos in the biography:
1. He is part model for "the young man" in Musil's farce Vinzenz and the Mistress of Important Men
2. Musil was disturbed by Broch's The Sleepwalkers, as he felt it encroached on his own philosophical-novel territory, and Broch did not, he felt, have the requisite philosophical chops.
3. Musil accused Broch of plagiarizing one of his essays, but Broch very graciously denied it without getting angry at Musil.
4. Broch tried to help Musil and his wife emigrate to America, without success.