The Sleepwalkers

novels by Broch
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Also known as: “Die Schlafwandler”

The Sleepwalkers, trilogy of novels by Hermann Broch, published in German in three volumes as Die Schlafwandler in 1931–32. The multilayered novels chronicle the dissolution of the fabric of European society from 1888 to the end of World War I and the consequent victory of the realist over the romantic and the anarchist. The trilogy was composed of Pasenow oder die Romantik 1888 (1931; The Romantic), Esch oder die Anarchie 1903 (1931; The Anarchist), and Huguenau oder die Sachlichkeit 1918 (1932; The Realist). In The Romantic, Joachim von Pasenow, an officer of noble birth, tries without success to give meaning ...(100 of 235 words)