_drawings & traces
about "The Innocent", Hermann Broch
The author’s narrative of a none-existing building was perceived as a miniature of the city, the story was visualized in a set of linear elements, boundaries, areas, nodes and landmarks with a strong artistic tendency. In the first stage, a visualization has been attempted in two dimensions, followed by the creation of a three-dimensional model mounted on a wall. It is suggested that the 3D model be placed on a white floor, in order for the reader to move/use in this "space", this mental map.
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Hermann Broch is a modernist writer of Jewish descent, born in Vienna. The idea that pervades the "Innocents" is the internal collapse of Germany, the political, social and individual apathy, after the defeat of the First World War, which will lead to the rise of Hitler to power.
