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.
Offers insights into the creativity of Franz Kafka and the torment he suffered as a man, a lover, and a writer. This book explores the letter that Kafka wrote to his fiancee, from their first tender moments together to his final letter and his refusal to reconcile.
Captures the essence of Marrakesh: the crowds, the smells - of spices, camels and the souks - and the sounds of the city, from the cries of the blind beggars and the children's call for alms to the unearthly silence on the still roofs above the hordes.
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.
The controversial memoir of Nobel Prize winner Elias Canetti, written during his life in World War II London
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.
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.
Excerpts from the late Nobel laureate's notebooks cover such topics as mythology, ethnicity, creativity, violence, literary history, and religion
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.
The Tongue Set Free is the first volume in Elias Canetti's three-volume autobiography. Translated from the German by Joachim Neugroschel.