Death of Virgil

Hermann Broch (1886–1951), along with Franz Kafka and Robert Musil, belongs to the top three Austrian writers of the 20th century. "The Death of Virgil" is Broch's crowning achievement, a textbook work. After the publication of the first English translation of The Death of Virgil, Broch himself called his novel "almost untranslatable." This is a story about the last eighteen hours of the life of the author of the "Aeneid", who is the first in world literature to have predicted the coming of God Jesus and the coming of the Christian era. Virgil spends the night and part of the day in thoughts and memories, which are replaced by half-delusional visions, reviews the path he has taken, reevaluates the principles that have been unbreakable until now.

Translated by Oleksa Logvinenko.