The Secret Heart of the Clock : Notes, Aphorisms, Fragments 1973 - 1985

Canetti, Elias ; Agee, Joel [trans.]

ISBN 10: 0233987215 / ISBN 13: 9780233987217

Published by Andre Deutsch 1991, London, 1991

About this Item

First edition. [vi], 151 pp. Hardcover in unclipped pictorial jacket. Clean. Canetti's meditations which focus on aging and mortality predominantly. 0233987215 8vo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Secret Heart of the Clock : Notes, Aphorisms, Fragments 1973 - 1985
• Publisher: Andre Deutsch 1991, London
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0233987215
• ISBN 13: 9780233987217
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophy and Religion
  • Modern First Editions

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Synopsis

From one of the preeminent intellectual figures of the twentieth century, a highly personal testimonial of what Canetti himself chooses to term "notations," bits and pieces: notes, aphorisms, fragments. Taken together, they present an awesomely tender, guiltily gloomy meditation on death and aging.

" A mosaical portrait of an old body's mind determined to do its exercises and not lose a step--and fascinating for that." - Kirkus Reviews

About the Author

Elias Canetti (1905-94) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981. His writings include a monumental work of social theory, Crowds and Power, and three volumes of memoirs, The Tongue Set Free, The Torch in My Ear, and The Play of the Eyes.

Joel Agee has translated Elias Canetti, Friedrich Durenmatt, Gottfried Benn, and a collection of Rilke's letters, Rilke and Benvenuta: An Intimate Correspondence. He won the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for his translation of Heinrich von Kleist's Penthesilea, a verse play. He is the author of Twelve Years: An American Boyhood in East Germany and lives in Brooklyn.