Verlorener Sohn?: Hermann Brochs Briefwechsel mit Armand 1925-1928 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3518421921 ISBN 13: 9783518421925

Synopsis

Hermann Broch was a writer with educational ambition: ethical impact was at the heart of his novelous and philosophical-political work. His son, the Armand, born in 1910, he wanted to offer the best education imaginable. So he sent the fifteen-year-old to the Collège de Normandie in Clères near Rouen, to an elite school of European high society. The father accompanied the first day of school – then still manufacturer in Vienna – with philosophical letters about the meaning of life, death and immortality. Broch belonged to the expressionist generation who created in science, literature and art the great works of the 20th century state-of-the-art. Armand represented the youth of the new objectivity: everything revolved around cars and sports, travel and chic clothing. The father reminds of the seriousness of life - the son reacts with suggestions for tourist holiday design. The father recalls the great economic crisis - the son wants to discuss the pros and cons of certain racing car models. The father reports of theatre events from Berlin - the son thinks of amusement in Paris. In the end, the son flies out of the noble Collège because he repeatedly fails at the final exams, and the father resigns as an educator. Broch's philosophical-literary excursions as well as his analyses of the economic situation in Europe, but no less Armand's descriptions of the continental jeunesse dorée and her amusement addiction make the correspondence an exciting document of the 1920s and a timeless testimony to the ever-repetitive opposition between father and son.

Edition details

• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 3518421921
• ISBN 13: 9783518421925
• Binding: Hardcover