Hermann Broch
Hermann Broch
Hermann Brochwas a 20th-century Austrian writer, considered one of the major Modernists...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 November 1886
CountryGermany
sea form live-by
Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.
rome ideas age
If the embodiment of the fundamental idea of our age were to be found in Victorian architecture, in the Church of Cristo Re in Rome or the Church in Brasilia, in Moscow University or the Capitol in Washington, then our age would undoubtedly be called the 'age of kitsch.'
world gone madness
The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.
beautiful essence confusion
The essence of kitsch is the confusion of ethical and esthetic categories; kitsch wants to produce not the "good" but the "beautiful."
world kitsch novel
A kitsch novel describes the world not as it really is, but as it is hoped and feared to be...
reality kitsch doe
Kitsch generates pseudonovelty with no new insight into reality, or else does not concern itself at all with the new and produces its effects with more or less academic eclecticism.
kitsch ethical aesthetic
Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical
kitsch goddess
The goddess of beauty is the goddess Kitsch.