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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Ashley Bryan

Appeared on:「旅のチカラ「ぼくと絵本で遊ぼう!~ブラザートム アメリカ~」
Related words: Brother Tom(ブラザートム), Ashley Bryan(アシュレイ・ブライアン), Call and response, Children book, Poetry, Black bird
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Sunday, April 15, 2012

Geist and Zeitgeist - Hermann Broch

As John Hargraves notes in his introduction, Hermann Broch remains best known, especially in the English-speaking world, for his fiction (in particular the novels The Sleepwalkers (see our review) The Death of Virgil (see our review), two of the towering works of the 20th century), but of the twelve volumes of the German edition of his collected works four are devoted to his essays (and one to his poetry) -- and almost none of that, except the long piece Hugo Hofmannsthal and His Age, has been translated.

Geist and Zeitgeist offers a Broch-essay sampler: six pieces (including a chunk of the Hofmannsthal essay) first written between 1933 and 1948 that display many of Broch's preoccupations, interests, and approaches.
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