Three volumes of memoirs, presented in a one-volume collection for the first time, illuminate the life and times of the late Nobel Prize winner in his own words, as he discusses everything from his creative inspiration to the state of Vienna in 1931.
This is the third part of Canetti's autobiography and features the author still in his twenties. Canetti depicts the intellectual life of the leading bars and cafes of Vienna and creates portraits of many of the leading figures of his day including Herman Broch, Robert Musil and Alma Mahler.
This extraordinary novel, first published in German in 1935, is a COMEDIE HUMAINE of madness. It tells the story of Peter Kien, a distinguished scholar in Germany between the wars. With masterly precision, Canetti build up the elements in Kien himself, and in his personal relationships, which will lead to his destruction. AUTO DA FE explores in fiction the theme of Canetti's other major - non -fiction work, CROWDS AND POWER: the relation of the individual to the mass, an issue especially relevant to any survey of fascism.
The book offers a deeply personal reflection on death and aging through a collection of notes, aphorisms, and fragments by a prominent twentieth-century intellectual. These "notations" reveal a tender yet somber exploration of life's transience, capturing the complexities of human emotions associated with mortality. Each piece contributes to a poignant meditation that resonates with the reader's own experiences of loss and the passage of time.
Crowds and Power is a revolutionary work in which Elias Canetti finds a new way of looking at human history and psychology. Breathtaking in its range and erudition, it explores Shiite festivals and the English Civil war, the finger exercises of monkeys and the effects of inflation in Weimar Germany. In this study of the interplay of crowds, Canetti offers one of the most profound and startling portraits of the human condition.
The Tongue Set Free is the first volume in Elias Canetti's three-volume autobiography. Translated from the German by Joachim Neugroschel.
The Torch in My Ear is the account of Canetti's young manhood, of his arrival in Vienna in the early 1920s, of his schooling, and of the beginning of his life as a writer.
A play. Translated by Carol Stewart . 8vo pp. 96 Rilegato tela, sovracoperta (cloth, dust jacket) Ottimo (Fine)
The Book Against Death is the work of a lifetime: a collection of Canetti's aphorisms, diatribes, musings and commentaries on and against death – published in English for the first time since his death in 1994 – interposed with material from philosophers and writers including Goethe, Kafka, Walter Benjamin and Robert Walser.
Excerpts from the late Nobel laureate's notebooks cover such topics as mythology, ethnicity, creativity, violence, literary history, and religion