Writing Process
Broch started to write the novel in 1938 while imprisoned in a concentration camp and finished it in the United States. The stream of consciousness and complex literary allusions in the novel were influenced by the modernist style of James Joyce. The first edition was an English translation by Jean Starr Untermeyer, who is said to have collaborated so closely with Broch as to be almost a co-author.
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