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07 Jun, 2014
The first volume of Hermann Broch's 'The Sleepwalkers&
'The Romantic', the first volume in Hermann Broch's trilogy 'The Sleepwalkers' is set in Berlin in 1888. Joachim von Pasenow, the novel's titular protagonist, is an officer from an aristocratic family. Broch's trilogy has the thematic unity of the disintegration of values. Christianity as a coherent system, having achieved its summit in the middle ages, is now, in the modern era, fragmenting. Pasenow is dimly aware of this fragmentation and seeks to evade it by elevating his profession, symbolically represented by his uniform, to an absolute value. Pasenow, while critical of the commercial values of his friend Bertrand, is unaware of the inadequacy of his adherence to the military code of honour (hence the Romantic of the title). It is Broch's contention that there are now only segmented, secular systems of value. Pasenow's adherence to the security conferred by his uniform becomes ridiculous on his wedding night when he is unable to remove it in order to make love to his wife.
The Penguin edition of the novel includes an introduction to 'The Sleepwalkers' by Professor John White and an important essay on the trilogy by the Czech writer Milan Kundera, whose work has been influenced by Broch.
05 May, 2017
Nostalgia OD
Watching this series after some thirty years from the original viewing is almost an over-indulgence in nostalgia. 'Brideshead Revisted' is itself a work of nostalgia, looking back from the grim reality of WWII Britain to the halcyon days of Oxford in the twenties. These early episodes are much the best with Sebastian (Anthony Andrews) and Anthony Blanche (Nicholas Grace) in fine form. Later episodes, while good, tend to drag proceedings somewhat, especially the scenes where Julia (Diana Quick) wrestles with the complexities of her Catholic faith. The parting scene between her and Charles Ryder (Jeremy Irons) didn't therefore seem particularly convincing: one should be able to respond to it without being a Catholic. Evelyn Waugh was of course a Catholic, but his Catholicism seems to have been a private religion, one which only admits celebrants who are English aristocrats. Still the irreversible passing of this beautiful culture and its replacement by the world of Hoopers can be mourned by anyone of a conservative temperament.