Mild and sensitive Richard Hieck endured a quietly difficult childhood in Germany. But from his father Richard inherited an interest in the night sky, learning to love the constellations and to take comfort in the strength of Orion and the warm radiance of Venus. His choice to pursue mathematics offers him the discipline he craved as a child. Published in 1933, The Unknown Quantity is Hermann Broch's study of the underlying chaos-and finally the impossibility-of life within a society whose values are in decay. As Richard ...
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Mild and sensitive Richard Hieck endured a quietly difficult childhood in Germany. But from his father Richard inherited an interest in the night sky, learning to love the constellations and to take comfort in the strength of Orion and the warm radiance of Venus. His choice to pursue mathematics offers him the discipline he craved as a child. Published in 1933, The Unknown Quantity is Hermann Broch's study of the underlying chaos-and finally the impossibility-of life within a society whose values are in decay. As Richard seeks to reconcile the conflicting demands of love and science, of passion and reason, societal and family values begin to undermine him and those in orbit around him.
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Illustrated by BRISSON, JAMES F. COVER DESIGN. Very Good. 5.5 X 0.75 X 8.25 inches VERY GOO VERY GOOD CONDITIOND CONDITION CLEAN, SOLID, BRIGHT.; BLACK TITLES ON GREY GLOSSY PAPER COVERS.....White endpapers. ***ENGLISH ONLY EDITION***; 204 pages; Austrian Author. NOVELIST, POET, PLAYWRIGHT...PHILOSPHICAL PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCHER....Guggenheim fellowship grant...
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Very Good. 081016082X. Binding tight. Pages clean and bright, with one small stamp on title page, not obscuring text. Spine straight and uncreased. Cover has very light shelf wear, basically just some lifting corners.; 8.3 X 5.4 X 0.7 inches; 204 pages.
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VG. Clean and tight; unbroken spine; light rubbing at front hinge. Grey wraps with black lettering. 204 pp.; no illustrations. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir, this was first published in the US in 1935. Broch continues with his theme of life within a culture whose values are in decay. Includes an afterword by Sidney Feshbach.