Party in the Blitz: The English Years
A stunning and unexpected new volume of Elias Canetti's autobiography. A surprise gift to celebrate the Nobel Laureate's 100th birthday.Nobel Prize winner Elias Canetti, at 85, beset by the desire to come to terms with his years of exile in Britain, wrote Party in the Blitz. He waited half a century to confront these memories, perhaps because in order to be truthful, I should have to track down every needless humiliation I was offered in England, and relive it as the torture it was. Party in the Blitz dissects that torture with unrestrained acerbity, recounting the ordeal of being in a new country where not a soul knew his writing. But not on…
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Weitere Autoren: Hofmann, Michael / Adler, Jeremy (Solist)
- ISBN: 978-0-8112-1636-4
- EAN: 9780811216364
- Produktnummer: 1665379
- Verlag: New Directions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 249 S.
- Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.6 cm x D2.5 cm 458 g
- Gewicht: 458
Über den Autor
Elias Canetti (1905-1994) is the Bulgarian-born author of the novel Auto-da-Fé, the sociological study Crowds and Power, and his four-volume memoir (The Tongue Set Free, The Torch in my Ear, The Play of the Eyes, Party in the Blitz). Canetti won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981.
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