Auto Da Fé
Auto Da Fé is the story of Peter Kien, a distinguished, reclusive sinologist living in Germany between the wars. With masterly precision, Canetti reveals Kien's character, displaying the flawed personal relationships which ultimately lead to his destruction.Manipulated by his illiterate and grasping housekeeper, Therese, who has tricked him into marriage, and Benedikt Pfaff, a brutish concierge, Kien is forced out of his apartment - which houses his great library and one true passion - and into the underworld of the city. In this purgatory he is guided by a chess-playing dwarf of evil propensities, until he is eventually restored to his home.…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4464-7549-2
- EAN: 9781446475492
- Produktnummer: 14343634
- Verlag: Vintage Digital
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 464 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 544 KB
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Elias Canetti
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