Party in the Blitz: The English Years
Elias Canetti originally intended Party in the Blitz to capture an image of his time in post-war London. Well known throughout Europe, Canetti scorned British intellectuals who weren't familiar with his work. By force of will alone he accumulated English followers, but not before being christened the godmonster of Hampstead. Canetti's memories of various people in his social circle are brief and scathing brimstone sketches. T.S. Eliot, Iris Murdoch, Wittgenstein, Herbert Read, Bertrand Russell-Canetti rakes them all over the coals. To Canetti, T.S. Eliot was nothing more than an American emigrant trying desperately to act British, and Canetti…
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Weitere Autoren: Hofmann, Michael (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8112-1830-6
- EAN: 9780811218306
- Produktnummer: 5225656
- Verlag: New Directions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 249 S.
- Masse: H20.0 cm x B13.4 cm x D2.2 cm 303 g
- Gewicht: 303
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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