tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post1889783714133155590..comments2024-03-29T03:04:00.853-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: Hermann Broch's Vienna - decay leads to the museumAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-57157161583028163432013-03-07T23:19:30.859-06:002013-03-07T23:19:30.859-06:00His Hofmannsthal study is so good I am almost juic...His Hofmannsthal study is so good I am almost juiced for <i>The Sleepwalkers</i>. Not quite there, but almost.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-36431390614846925282013-03-07T19:48:18.472-06:002013-03-07T19:48:18.472-06:00The tone of this passage should look familiar to r...<em>The tone of this passage should look familiar to readers of later Austrian literature.</em><br /><br />Hehe, you can say that again. Oh, Hermann Broch, I sort of love you, but if I never read you again I would probably be happy. More seriously, I do want to read more of him, but I still have PTSD.nicolehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17532641082944082516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-19538404887540449692013-03-06T15:49:07.039-06:002013-03-06T15:49:07.039-06:00The "cowbell" line took on renewed meani...The "cowbell" line took on <i>renewed meaning</i> in the 1970s, didn't it?<br /><br />Sometimes Broch sounds <i>exactly</i> like Bernhard. Or vice versa, I suppose. Bernhard would have put "the sign of Austrian ruin" in italics. I mean, "decay leads to the museum" - that is an actual Bernhard novel!<br /><br />I'm going to end this run with a return to Bernhard, I think.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-91135559701617308222013-03-06T11:46:50.364-06:002013-03-06T11:46:50.364-06:00To Broch's excellent definition of kitsch, I w...To Broch's excellent definition of kitsch, I will add "music in which a 10-15 minute drum solo is performed by dope-smoking longhairs" from the 1970s musical version of Vienna known as arena rock. On a more serious note, I loved both the quotes from him you pulled here and the way his Austrian literature of doom sensibilities mesh so nicely with those of Musil and, later, Bernhard. Wonderful stuff.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.com