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A career-spanning collection of writings by the Nobel laureate Elias Canetti, edited and introduced by Pulitzer Prize winner Joshua Cohen.
He embarked on no adventures, he was in no war. He was never in prison, he never killed anyone. He neither won nor lost a fortune. All he ever did…
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This is the definitive introduction to Canetti’s writing with excerpts from multiple works, including notes from Canetti’s exile in London, political essays, and “Auto-da-Fé,” a novel about a reclusive scholar who owns the greatest private library in Vienna.
The bibliophile in the novel, named Georges Kien, begins each day with a morning walk to look into the windows of booksellers, to confirm the superiority of his own collection. Entropy increases when he marries his housekeeper, Therese, and encounters a series of grotesque figures who contribute to the destruction of his library.
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