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Hermann Broch (1886-1951), along with Franz Kafka and Robert Musil, is one of the three most important Austrian writers of the twentieth century. This outstanding representative of philosophical prose did not receive sufficient recognition during his lifetime and only later entered the history of European literature. "The Death of Virgil is Broch's pinnacle achievement, a work of textbook literature. The writer had been working on this novel, marked by the influence of J. Joyce's poetics, all his life. After the publication of the first English translation of The Death of Virgil, Broch himself called his novel "almost untranslatable". This is a story about the last eighteen hours of the life of the terminally ill author of the Aeneid, who was the first in world literature to predict the coming of God Jesus and the onset of the Christian era. Virgil spends the night and part of the day in reflections and memories, which are replaced by semi-delusional visions, revisits the path he has travelled, and reassesses the previously unshakable principles.