MARIA JOÃO CANTINHO
Hermann Broch: the reluctant poet.

Driven by the most absolute coherence between life, art and action, the life of Hermann Broch, the writer, the poet, the politician, the essayist, the entrepreneur, was designed like one constant tension between the many categories of knowledge he reflected about. This essay attempts to trace the outlines of his complex and difficult life, of his relations with power and his analysis of values, to contextualise his work and, above all, to understand the links between his life and work, specially focusing on his masterpieces, Die Schlafwandler and Der Tod des Virgil .