Hermann Broch was born in Vienna in 1886 Directed textile mills family until 1928, when he decided to devote himself exclusively to literature. After the Nazis occupied Austria in 1938, the writer was imprisoned by the Gestapo. Thanks to the efforts of his friend James Joyce, Broch was released and emigrated to Britain and finally to the United States, where he lived until his death in 1951.
His first major work is the trilogy The Sleepwalkers (1931-1933), where historical social transformations moral, aesthetic and that occurred between the late nineteenth and early twentieth century are recounted. The third part, where the verse alternates, essay and narrative structured in different planes, is considered as one of the founding works of the modern novel.
His famous work, The Death of Virgil (1945), consists essentially of a long monologue which the Latin poet reaches between consciousness, unconsciousness and delirium via jumping cronológicos-, in his last hours of life, where Virgilio it dwells at length on the art and literature, knowledge, truth and the possibilities of language.
In 1950 published The Innocents, a novel built from several accounts.
Hermann Broch was also an essayist (Poetry and research), playwright (Baron Businesses Laborde), storyteller (Zarpar light breeze) and poet (Cantos).
The Hex is his latest novel, hitherto remained unpublished in Spanish.