Der Tod des Vergil

About The Death of Virgil

Broch's 1945 lyrical masterpiece — Virgil's last eighteen hours arriving in Brundisium with the Aeneid manuscript, delirious, contemplating burning the poem as morally insufficient; written during the Nazi period and American exile; the formal extreme of Austrian prose, where the sentences extend for pages in a meditation on whether beauty can justify itself in a world of violence.