Death of Virgil

Der Tod des Vergil

A modern classic comparable to "Ulysses", the supreme masterpiece of Hermann Broch, a giant of 20th-century Central European literature. The translator spent twenty years on this masterpiece, and the simplified Chinese version is now available!
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【Editor's Recommendation】
1. Thomas Mann, Carl Jung, Stefan Zweig, Hannah Arendt, Milan Kundera, George Steiner, and Susan Sontag all praised it.
2. The ultimate masterpiece by Hermann Broch, a giant of 20th-century Central European literature, a modern classic comparable to Ulysses
3. In the darkest era of World War II, Bloch spent eight years and five revisions to complete this book.
4. History and reality intertwine, the inside and outside of the book run parallel, the characters and the author blend together, and the reflection on the fate of death and the value of literature has never been so touching.
5. After decades of eager anticipation, Chinese readers finally have access to a simplified Chinese translation.
6. The translator is an authority on Bloch studies in China. He has spent twenty years honing his skills and has created a superb writing style that vividly reproduces the original style.
7. The translator specially wrote a 20,000-word postscript, which deeply interprets the "Heavenly Book" from the author to the works.
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【Content Introduction】
On his deathbed, the poet Virgil sailed across the Adriatic Sea with Augustus' fleet back to Italy. On his final day, from night to day, he reflected on his life from his deathbed in the imperial palace, contemplating the perils and suffering of the world he inhabits, the value of art and literature in the face of suffering, and the possibility of return and redemption in the face of fate and death. He decided to destroy the Aeneid, which he had painstakingly written. But facing his friends and the emperor directly, how would he choose between listening and defending himself? Could his soul achieve supreme ascension and rebirth?
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【Celebrity reviews and recommendations】
There is no doubt that Bloch's two major works, especially The Death of Virgil, occupy an important position in literary history and represent the development of literary history.
—Thomas Mann The Death of Virgil is one of the most important works of our time written in German as well as in any other language.
- Stefan Zweig I envy Bloch because he succeeded in doing what I had to forbid myself to do in order to avoid the pain of death.
— Carl Jungbroch's work, with its themes and its completely original, poetic language, bridges the gap between Proust and Kafka, between the irretrievably lost past and the future that has yet to arrive. In other words, the work itself is the bridge that Virgil uses to cross the empty abyss between the past that has passed and the future that has yet to arrive.
- Hannah Arendt It was during this dark era that he wrote The Death of Virgil, inspired by the legend that Virgil was determined to destroy his Aeneid - a solemn farewell written in the form of a novel and aimed at the art of novel. At the same time, for him, it was also a "private preparation for death."
- Milan Kundera Bloch was extremely gifted with patience, enough to create great novels that show patience, such as "The Death of Virgil" and "The Sleepwalkers", and they are permeated with a tremendous power of thinking.
—Susan Sontag Bloch is the greatest novelist to emerge from European literature since Joyce… The Death of Virgil represents the only real technical advance made in the novel since Ulysses.
—George Steiner I will never forget the feeling of ecstasy that swept over me when I read the opening scenes of The Death of Virgil.
—Durus Grinbeinbroch created a novel that is extremely difficult to match in the 20th century, perhaps second only to James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. …As an ambitious secular Bible, The Death of Virgil helps people face death by offering a mythical epistemology rather than a religious creed.
—Ernestine Schrant

2024-11-01

译林出版社

544

9787575302227