The Torch In My Ear - Softcover

Canetti, Elias

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847083579 ISBN 13: 9781847083579

Publisher: Granta Books, 2011

Synopsis

In The Torch in My Ear Elias Canetti, Nobel Prize winner, towering intellectual figure and polymath, gives us his second volume of autobiography. Using as a framework his admiration for his first great mentor, the Viennese writer Karl Kraus, and his passion for his first wife, Veza, Canetti seamlessly incorporates a profoundly perceptive portrait of Vienna and Berlin in the 1920s. Here are the voices of Brecht, Isaac Babel, George Grosz, and many others. This is autobiography redefining itself.

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About the Author:

ELIAS CANETTI (1905 - 1994), winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Literature, was one of the major intellectual figures and polymaths of the twentieth century. A master of many genres, he is known espeically for his novel, Auto Da Fe, and his great work of social theory, Crowds and Power. But Canetti's genius is perhaps nowhere more evident that in the three volumes of his autobiography, now reissued by Granta Books - The Tongue Set Free, The Torch in My Ear and The Play of the Eyes.

About this edition

• Publisher: Granta Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1847083579
• ISBN 13: 9781847083579
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384