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The Sleepwalkers

by Hermann Broch

Three lives amid a changing Germany

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Three lives amid a changing Germany

Hermann Broch’s trilogy moves through three different lives: an army officer, a bookkeeper who contemplates assassination, and a deserter seeking advantage. Their private circumstances provide the human scale for a broader portrait of Germany as established beliefs and values come under pressure. Across its three parts—“The Romantic,” “The Anarchist,” and “The Realist”—the book connects personal disorientation with a wider crisis of faith, morality, and reason. Its structure gives each figure a distinct place in that examination of social change, making the trilogy’s central subject not one isolated fate but the instability of a world and the people living within it.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in literary fiction structured as a trilogy.
  • Readers drawn to fiction about social change and crises of belief and values.
  • Readers interested in character studies of people facing personal and moral uncertainty.

Themes

Social change in GermanyLoss of faith and valuesMorality and reasonPersonal disorientation

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Book overview

"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.
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