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(Schopenhauer. for example) also viewed the irreversible process of lime as the
essence of the world's negativity and imperfection. Consequently. annulling time
has an ethical and utopian component in the writings of such thinkers. (xiii)
Wic in dem Eingangskapitcl zur Gnosis deutlich gemachl werden sollIe. hat Broch
sich fUr den Lebensweg des Engagements entschieden. Joseph P. Lawrence schreibt dazu:
..His real concern was in fact with worldrnaking. Whether through a literary creation or
through a political creation of a new world order. Broch's consistent concern was wil.h a
thoroughgoing transfonnation of reality. He wanted 10 save the world" (316).
Deshalb iSl ihm die Aufhebung def Zeit in seioem Werk SO ein gro6es Anlicgen. da
Erlosung auf diesem Wcge greifbar scheint und er so meint. sein Scherflein zur Erlosung
bcitragen zu konnen. Hargraves schreibt Uber die Methode Brochs. Gleichzeitigkeit zu
erzeugen:
Broch's most important musical method is the attempt to produce the effect of
simultaneity; in this he is a kindred spirit to Joyce. Proust and Mann. But unlike
Proust and Mann, who aim for simultaneity but who proceed in more or less
traditional narrative fOnTIs. Broch directly attacks the reader's sense of narrative
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time. Although Joyce's narrative style is also non-traditional. it is not comparable to
Broch's in Der Tod des Vergil, where the concept of "eidetic" units is used to
construct sentences of great length and complexity: by atlempting a paramusical
figuration of simultaneity. he hoped literature. like music, could have the ethical
effect of temporarily freeing man from the fear of death. (xiv)
Diese Gleichzeitigkeit entsteht nicht zuletzt durch die vielfache Verwendung der
kopulativen Konjunktion "und:' sowie durch das ,.in der Schwebe halten" der Aussagen.