The Book Against Death - Elias Canetti

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Auteur(s) : Elias Canetti

Editeur : New Directions Publishing Corporation

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/11/2024

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 432

Dimensions : 20.3 x 13.2 x 2.5

ISBN : 0811237990

Résumé :

The Book Against Death?is the work of a lifetime: a collection of Elias Canetti's powerful, disarming, and often bleakly comic observations, diatribes, musings, and commentaries on and against death. Evoking despair, melancholy, and fury, Canetti examines the inevitable demise of all beings-from the ant, the fish, and the worm to an executioner, a court painter, and a Greek god-while fiercely protesting the mass deaths incurred during war and the willingness of the despot to wield death as power. Interspersed with material from philosophers and writers such as Goethe, Walter Benjamin, and Robert Walser, The Book Against Death?is ultimately a moving affirmation of the value of life itself.?

Canetti famously refused to die before he'd read all his obituaries and corrected them.

I accept no death.-Elias Canetti (1905-1994)

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Biographie:
Elias Canetti was born in 1905 into a Sephardi Jewish family in Ruse, Bulgaria. He moved to Vienna in 1924, where he became involved in literary circles while studying for a degree in chemistry. He remained in Vienna until the Anschluss, when he emigrated to England and later to Switzerland, where he died in 1994. In 1981, Canetti was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas, and artistic power. His best-known works include his trilogy of memoirs The Tongue Set Free, The Torch in My Ear, The Play of the Eyes, and The Party in the Blitz...

Sommaire:
Elias Canetti was born in 1905 into a Sephardi Jewish family in Ruse, Bulgaria. He moved to Vienna in 1924, where he became involved in literary circles while studying for a degree in chemistry. He remained in Vienna until the Anschluss, when he emigrated to England and later to Switzerland, where he died in 1994. In 1981, Canetti was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas, and artistic power. His best-known works include his trilogy of memoirs The Tongue Set Free, The Torch in My Ear, The Play of the Eyes, and The Party in the Blitz...