'I first read 'The Sleepwalkers' when it appeared in this magnificent translation of Edwin and Willa Muir, in 1932. Since then, it has been an experience which has lingered in my mind and which I have meant to go back to. ...On rereading this book, I find that it is one of the few really original novels of this century. If it owes a great deal to Joyce and Proust, then Broch has transformed their interior techniques and many faceted sensibilities into something as harshly German as the painting of Bosch. ... This is a novel hewn out of the life of the years between 1890 and 1920 which leads into a view of history wider than political theories.' Stephen Spender’s review, 'Commentary', October 1948. The American sheets; Stephen Spender's copy with his signature.
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