The Spell

novel by Broch

Also known as: “Demeter”, “Der Versucher”, “Die Verzauberung”(Show More)

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The Spell, allegorical novel by Hermann Broch, published posthumously in 1953 as Der Versucher. It was the only completed volume of a projected trilogy to have been called Bergroman (“Mountain Novel”). The author wrote it in the mid-1930s and then, dissatisfied, completely rewrote it twice more; by his death in 1951, he was halfway through a third revision. Versions of the novel have also been published as Demeter (1967) and Die Verzauberung (1976). An allegory...

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