Description

La obra capital de Hermann Broch, la trilogía de Los sonámbulos, en un solo volumen.

La trilogía de Los sonámbulos, uno de los pilares de la literatura europea del siglo XX, descubre a tres seres arrojados al incandescente fragor de la historia, incautos defensores de unos valores ya caducos.

Así, el personaje principal de Pasenow o el romanticismo es el arquetipo del hombre abúlico y soñador que busca en la carrera militar una falsa seguridad que le proteja del desorden del mundo.

Esch o la anarquía narra la historia de un empleado de comercio dominado por la idea de emigrar a América, símbolo de libertad y redención.

Finalmente, Huguenau o el realismo nos presenta la encarnación de la lógica y la moral propias del comerciante, por ellas convertido impunemente en desertor, arribista y asesino.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

"Broch performs with an impeccable virtuosity." --Aldous Huxley

With his epic trilogy, Hermann Broch established himself as one of the great innovators of modern literature, a visionary writer-philosopher equivalent of James Joyce, Thomas Mann, or Robert Musil. Even as he grounded his narratives in the intimate daily life of Germany, Broch was identifying the oceanic changes that would shortly sweep that life into the abyss.

Whether he is writing about a neurotic army officer (The Romantic), a disgruntled bookkeeper and would-be assassin (The Anarchist), or an opportunistic war-deserter (The Realist), Broch immerses himself in the twists of his characters&; psyches, and at the same time soars above them, to produce a prophetic portrait of a world tormented by its loss of faith, morals, and reason.