… for overstrong was the command to hold fast to each smallest particle of time, to the smallest particle of every circumstance, and to embody all of them in memory as if they could be preserved in memory through all deaths for all times.

Hermann Broch (November 1 1886 – May 30 1951) was a 20th century Austrian writer considered one of the major Modernists. )
Other important works by Broch are The Sleepwalkers (Die Schlafwandler 1932) and The Guiltless (Die Schuldlosen 1950). At the age of 45 he publiHermann Brochd his first novel The Sleepwalkers.

Hermann Broch (November 1 1886 – May 30 1951) was a 20th century Austrian writer considered one of the major Modernists.