kitch

nationality

Austrian

American

occupation / innovator as

playwright

philosopher

cause of death

natural causes

is indicative of periods in which values decline.

This was foreseen by an eminent observer, the novelist Hermann Broch, who, back in 1933, stated that ‘. . . all periods in which values decline are kitsch periods.’ However, he was not thinking of Japan nor could he have been, because in this area Japan had no standards from which to decline.

is deeply woven into the souls of those who live by it - they can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.

Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.

Hermann BrochThinkers

Hermann Broch