The Unknown Quantity - Hermann Broch - Books - Northwestern University Press - 9780810160828 - December 27, 2000
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The Unknown Quantity


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Richard Hieck had a difficult childhood in early-20th-century Germany. With his withdrawn mother and his enigmatic father, he studies mathematics in an attempt to find the discipline he craves. Broch examines the impossibility of life within a society whose values are in decay.


208 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released December 27, 2000
ISBN13 9780810160828
Publishers Northwestern University Press
Pages 208
Dimensions 142 × 218 × 16 mm   ·   294 g
Translator Muir, Edwin
Translator Muir, Willa

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