Hermann Broch was born in 1887 in Lüneburg, Germany. In his early years he was a printer's apprentice, then a salesman. In 1914 he finished his studies and began working as a journalist beginning in the Department of Culture and Education of the German army. His first book, "Lightning", appeared shortly thereafter
He was subsequently published in "The New Statesman" and "The World". He lived in Switzerland from 1925 to 1932 then moved to Denmark where he became editor-in-chief of "Land og Folk" (Land and People). He died in 1968.
… 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
Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.Hermann Broch
