Top Broch Quotes

There are few poets today who can equal, in their esthetic exploitation of language, in their depth of commitment to their medium, in their range of conceptual understanding, in the purity of their cl...

There are few poets today who can equal, in their esthetic exploitation of language, in their depth of commitment to their medium, in their range of conceptual understanding, in the purity of their cl...

William H. Gass

Tags: nabokov, beckett, borges, calvino, broch, gaddis

In the presence of Esch, values have hidden their faces. Order, loyalty, sacrifice—he cherishes all these words, but exactly what do they represent? Sacrifice for what? Demand what sort of order? He d...

Milan Kundera

In the presence of Esch, values have hidden their faces. Order, loyalty, sacrifice—he cherishes all these words, but exactly what do they represent? Sacrifice for what? Demand what sort of order? He d...

Milan Kundera

Tags: sacrifice, loyalty, novel, purpose of life, values, order, existentialism, modern, certainty, imperative