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Hermann Broch

Literary Character
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Austrian modernist writer whose poetry and novels explore moral disintegration and the search for ethical meaning.

Detailed Definition
Broch’s "The Death of Virgil" and essays explore the collapse of values in modernity, blending philosophy and poetic prose. In poetry, he appears as a thinker of cultural disintegration, symbolizing the poet’s role in diagnosing societal decay and seeking transcendence through language.
Example
Example in poetry:
Hermann Broch’s "The Death of Virgil" constructs the poet as dying witness to history’s collapse; His poetic prose blends philosophical and lyrical voices into complex character; Broch’s use of stream-of-consciousness gives Virgil psychological depth; His work inspires poets to treat the artist as historical character in crisis.
Additional Notes
Hermann Broch, though a novelist, explored poetic fragmentation and mythic recurrence in works like "The Death of Virgil"; his literary characters serve as philosophical mouthpieces, useful for studying how poetry and prose intersect in modernist persona construction.
Also Known As
modernist visionary mass psychology novelist philosophical exile
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