The Genealogy of the Massenfuhrer: Hermann Broch's Die Verzauberung as a Religious Novel

From: German Quarterly | Date: April 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

Sandberg, Glenn Robert. The Genealogy of the Massenfuhrer: Hermann Broch's Die Verzauberung as a Religious Novel. Heidelberg. Winter, 1997. 167 pp. DM 48.00 paperback.

Glenn Sandberg's The Genealogy of the Massenfuhrer, a revised dissertation, aims to throw new light on the meaning of Hermann Broch's novel Die Verzauberung (also titled Der Versucher in the first edition). The novel was written in the mid 1930s and was long regarded as one of the first parodies of Hitler's rise to power. It has been interpreted as a work that develops the then current theories (Le Bon, Freud and others) about ...

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