by Hermann Broch · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783518388655
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«Die Verzauberung» is Hermann Broch's novel in the 1994 Suhrkamp paperback edition, 415 pages, in German.
Set in an Alpine village, it narrates the arrival of the outsider Marius Ratti, who promises each stratum of the village the fulfilment of its desires and ends up channelling resentments and hopes until he seizes power. The novel explores the psychological, social and political springs that made the rise of fascisms in Europe possible.
Work included in Broch's Kommentierte Werkausgabe as the third volume and published in the suhrkamp taschenbuch collection (ST 2365).
For readers of classic fiction and German literature, with an interest in the mechanisms of totalitarianism and mass psychology.
Hermann Broch was an Austrian writer, best known for two major works of modernist fiction: The Sleepwalkers and The Death of Virgil.
