Studies of one of the foremost 20c Austrian writers, as a critic and as a novelist and dramatist.

Introduction: Broch, Our Contemporary - Paul Michael LuetzelerKitsch and Art: Broch's Essay "Das Böse im Wertsystem der Kunst" - Ruth Kluger"Erneuerung des Theaters": Broch's Ideas on Drama in Context - Ernst Schuerer"Der Rhythmus der Ideen": On the Workings of Broch's Cultural Criticism - Bernhard Fetz"Kurzum die Hölle": Broch's Early Political Text "Die Straße" - Wendelin Schmidt-DenglerVisionaries in Exile: Broch's Cooperation with G.A. Borgese and Hannah Arendt - Paul Michael LuetzelerFear in Culture: Broch's Massenwahntheorie - Wolfgang Mueller-FunkInscriptions of Power: Broch's Narratives of History in Die Schlafwandler - Kathleen L. KomarThe German Colonial Aftermath: Broch's 1903. Esch oder die Anarchie - Judith RyanNeither Sane nor Insane: Ernst Kretschmer's Influence on Broch's Early Novels - Gisela Brude-FirnauNon-Contemporaneity of the Contemporaneous: Broch's Novel Die Verzauberung - Gisela Roethke"Great Theater" and "Soap Bubbles": Broch the Dramatist - Roberto RizzoA Farewell to Art: Poetic Reflections in Broch's Der Tod des Vergil - Juergen HeizmannPoetry as Perjury, or The End of Art: Broch's Der Tod des Vergil and Celan's Atemwende - Peter Yoonsuk Paik"Beyond Words": The Translation of Broch's Der Tod des Vergil by Jean Starr Untermeyer - John HargravesBetween Guilt and Fall: Broch's Die Schuldlosen - Theodore ZiolkowskiBroch Reception in Japan: Shin'ichiro Nakamura and Die Schuldlosen - Koichi Yamaguchi