…mathematician whose scientific mind applies allegorical dissections over a wide range of existential themes concerning humanity and feelings. The polarity makes it for an extraordinary read. Hermann Broch "The Death of Virgil". The novel creates out of a dying poet a rich, profound vision both of civilization and of primal concerns of all mankind. Austrian authors where on another level in the late 30s and 40s of the 20th…
…mathematician whose scientific mind applies allegorical dissections over a wide range of existential themes concerning humanity and feelings. The polarity makes it for an extraordinary read. Hermann Broch "The Death of Virgil". The novel creates out of a dying poet a rich, profound vision both of civilization and of primal concerns of all mankind. Austrian authors where on another level in the late 30s and 40s of the 20th…
…web of relationships that can surprise and invigorate us, even after thousands of years "[E]nmeshed in a web of relationships", i.e., intertextuality[1]. Further reading: Hermann Broch's novel, The Death of Virgil, and Simone Weil's lesser known compilation of writings, Intimations of Christianity Among the Ancient Greeks. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertextuality
The web of relationships extends to music as well. After reading that Broch novel, one might enjoy the cycle of works by Jean Barraqué that took their inspiration from The Death of Virgil.
…difficulty: 0) The autumn of the patriarch, by Marquez 1) Gormenghast series, by Mervyn Peake 2) The third period of Henry James (The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors, and The Golden Bowl). 3) The Death of Virgil, by Hermann Broch I do suggest trying Gormenghast, it's an amazingly written fantasy series.
…Solitude, Vanity Fair, and Middlemarch, among others. I have failed at In Search of Lost Time (only finished first volume), The Divine Comedy, The Iliad, The Odyssey, Ulysses (Joyce), Bleak House, The Death of Virgil (Broch), The Sleepwalkers (Broch), Evening Edged in Gold (Lucky to have beautiful original 1980 translation) and 2666. These are a few in a much longer list of notable incompletes. What works of literature…
……这位数学家用其科学思维，对关乎人性与情感的广泛存在主义主题进行了寓言式的剖析。这种两极对立的特质让它成为一部非凡的读物。赫尔曼·布洛赫的《维吉尔之死》。这部小说借由一位垂死诗人的视角，对文明以及全人类的根本关切构建出宏大而深刻的图景。20世纪30年代末和40年代的奥地利作家水平简直在另一个维度……
…mathematician whose scientific mind applies allegorical dissections over a wide range of existential themes concerning humanity and feelings. The polarity makes it for an extraordinary read. Hermann Broch "The Death of Virgil". The novel creates out of a dying poet a rich, profound vision both of civilization and of primal concerns of all mankind. Austrian authors where on another level in the late 30s and 40s of the 20th…
……这位数学家用其科学思维，对关乎人性与情感的广泛存在主义主题进行了寓言式的剖析。这种两极对立的特质让它成为一部非凡的读物。赫尔曼·布洛赫的《维吉尔之死》。这部小说借由一位垂死诗人的视角，对文明以及全人类的根本关切构建出宏大而深刻的图景。20世纪30年代末和40年代的奥地利作家水平简直在另一个维度……
…mathematician whose scientific mind applies allegorical dissections over a wide range of existential themes concerning humanity and feelings. The polarity makes it for an extraordinary read. Hermann Broch "The Death of Virgil". The novel creates out of a dying poet a rich, profound vision both of civilization and of primal concerns of all mankind. Austrian authors where on another level in the late 30s and 40s of the 20th…
……即便是几千年后，这种关系网络依然能给我们带来惊喜与力量——“深陷于关系网络之中”，也就是互文性（intertextuality）[1]。延伸阅读：赫尔曼·布洛赫的小说《维吉尔之死》，以及西蒙娜·韦伊相对冷门的作品合集《古希腊的基督教先兆》。1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertextuality
…web of relationships that can surprise and invigorate us, even after thousands of years "[E]nmeshed in a web of relationships", i.e., intertextuality[1]. Further reading: Hermann Broch's novel, The Death of Virgil, and Simone Weil's lesser known compilation of writings, Intimations of Christianity Among the Ancient Greeks. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertextuality
这种关系网络甚至延伸到了音乐领域。读完布洛赫那本小说后，大家或许会喜欢让·巴拉凯（Jean Barraqué）以《维吉尔之死》为灵感创作的那组系列作品。
The web of relationships extends to music as well. After reading that Broch novel, one might enjoy the cycle of works by Jean Barraqué that took their inspiration from The Death of Virgil.
……难度分级：0) 马尔克斯《族长的秋天》 1) 默温·皮克《歌曼盖斯特》系列 2) 亨利·詹姆斯的第三创作期（《鸽翼》《使节》和《金碗》） 3) 赫尔曼·布洛赫《维吉尔之死》。我真心建议试试《歌曼盖斯特》，这部奇幻系列文笔绝了。
…difficulty: 0) The autumn of the patriarch, by Marquez 1) Gormenghast series, by Mervyn Peake 2) The third period of Henry James (The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors, and The Golden Bowl). 3) The Death of Virgil, by Hermann Broch I do suggest trying Gormenghast, it's an amazingly written fantasy series.
……《百年孤独》、《名利场》以及《米德尔马契》等等。我没能啃下来的有《追忆似水年华》（只读完了第一卷）、《神曲》、《伊利亚特》、《奥德赛》、乔伊斯的《尤利西斯》、《荒凉山庄》、布洛赫的《维吉尔之死》、布洛赫的《梦游人》、阿诺·施密特的《金色的黄昏边缘》（很幸运买到了1980年的绝美原版译本），还有《2666》。在这一长串著名烂尾书单里，这些还只是冰山一角。大家都有哪些文学作品……
…Solitude, Vanity Fair, and Middlemarch, among others. I have failed at In Search of Lost Time (only finished first volume), The Divine Comedy, The Iliad, The Odyssey, Ulysses (Joyce), Bleak House, The Death of Virgil (Broch), The Sleepwalkers (Broch), Evening Edged in Gold (Lucky to have beautiful original 1980 translation) and 2666. These are a few in a much longer list of notable incompletes. What works of literature…