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The Realist (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Muir, Edwin; Broch, Hermann; Muir, Willa

 
9780141181615: The Realist (Penguin Modern Classics)

Synopsis

Spanning the final months of the Great War, THE REALIST is the story of the squalid ascent of Wilhelm Hugenau, a young deserter and swindler. This final story in Broch's triptych is his most technically ambitious and most haunting.

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About the Author

The novelist and essayist Hermann Broch (1886 - 1951) was born in Vienna and spent his early adult life working in his father's textile business. Broch was over 40 when he began to study philosophy and mathematics at Vienna University. When the Nazis invaded Austria in 1938 he was imprisoned, but influential friends obtained his release and facilitated his emigration to America in 1940.

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