Barbara

by Hermann Broch

In den Jahren nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg begegnet ein leitender Arzt der Liebe seines Lebens in Gestalt einer jungen Kinderärztin. Auch »Doctor Barbara«, wie die Frau von den Kindern genannt wird, empfindet das Schicksalhafte der Begegnung – und weicht zurück. Nach einer schweren Kindheit und Jugend hat sie sich, wie zur Wiedergutmachung an anderen, ganz ihrem Beruf und der politischen Arbeit gewidmet.

65 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1973

About the author

Broch was born in Vienna to a prosperous Jewish family and worked for some time in his family's factory in Teesdorf, though he maintained his literary interests privately. He attended a technical college for textile manufacture and a spinning and weaving college. Later, in 1927, he sold the textile factory and decided to study mathematics, philosophy and psychology at the University of Vienna.

In 1909 he converted to Roman Catholicism and married Franziska von Rothermann, the daughter of a knighted manufacturer. This marriage dured until 1923.

He started as a full-time writer when he was 40. When "The Sleepwalkers," his first novel, was published, he was 45. The year was 1931.

In 1938, when the Nazis annexed Austria, he emigrated to Britain after he was briefly arrested. After this, he moved to the United States. In his exile, he helped other persecuted Jews.

In 1945 was published his masterpiece, "The Dead of Virgil." After this, he started an essay on mass behaviour, which remained unfinished.

Broch died in 1951 in New Haven, Connecticut. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize and considered one of the major Modernists.

Reviews

[Mayk Can Şişman · Rating 4 out of 5]

çoktandır merak ettiğim hermann broch’la bu kitap sayesinde sonunda tanıştım ve genel hatlarıyla gayet memnun kaldım. kitaptaki dört öykü de oldukça akıcı ve iz bırakan, iyi çevrilmiş öykülerdi. ama özellikle kitaba adını veren ‘barbara’yı diğerlerine fark atarcasına çok sevdim. diğer öyküler de iyiydi diyebilirim ama ‘barbara’ rahatlıkla bir novellaya dönüşebilecek kadar zengin ve iz bırakan cinstendi.

[Cansu Kargı · Rating 4 out of 5]

İyi çeviri, iyi örgüyle oluşturulmuş metinler..
En çok kitaba ismini veren ikinci öyküyü sevdim.
Özenli betimlemeleri okumak keyifli idi

[Alessandro · Rating 1 out of 5]

***ATTENZIONE***:
Qui parlo dell'EDIZIONE CASTELVECCHI uscita nel Febbraio 2026: questo testo, che qui viene annunciato come "TRADOTTA PER LA PRIMA VOLTA IN ITALIANO", è già presente nel corpo del romanzo di Broch "Sortilegio", come un semplice flashback del protagonista. Sortilegio è uscito prima per Rusconi nel 1982, e di recente è stato riproposto dall'editore Eliot nel 2023 e sempre nel 2023 da Carbonio editore
- Costo di "Barbara": 12 euro e 50
- Costo di "Sortilegio" (in qualsiasi edizione, tranne la Rusconi fuori catalogo): tra i 19 e i 20 euro

[Jógvan Helge · Rating 3 out of 5]

som i sin milde sang i tyngdeløse kvelder