On Hold The Torch in My Ear by Elias Canetti – 1st Ed/HB/DJ/1982

Book Type : Hardback
Publisher : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Incorporated
Edition : Stated First Printing
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number : 82-7460
ISBN Number : No Listing
Copyright Date : 1982
Dimensions : 9 ¼” High x 6 ¼” Wide x 1” Thick
Inventory Number : 000-001-415
Original Retail Price : $ 16.50

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Description : An autobiographical account of Canetti's youth recalls his education, early writing career, and the major cultural figures of Weimar Germany--Georg Grosz, Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht, and other individuals of this rich intellectual period.

From the front flap…
Elias Canetti, winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Literature, is one of the major intellectual figures of the twentieth century.

He is a master of many genres, having written both a great novel - Auto-Da-Fe - and a great work of social theory - Crowds and Power. But Canetti’s genius is perhaps nowhere more evident than in his autobiography.

The Torch in My Ear is the second volume of Canetti’s memoirs. As the first volume, The Tongue Set Free, was marked by Canetti’s first great admiration – that for his mother - The Torch in My Ear is above all else the account of Canetti’s admiration for the first great memoir of his adulthood, the Viennese writer Karl Kraus. Indeed, the title is a reference to Kraus’s magazine, The Torch. the book is also a portrait of Canetti’s first wife, Veza.

Within the framework of these great passions, Canetti provides an astonishing account of the Vienna and Berlin of the 1920s. the voices of Kraus, of Veza, and of Canetti’s mother are accompanied by those of Brecht (toward whom Canetti is severe), Isaac Babel, George Grosz, and many others. The sounds, as Canetti would have it, of these people are alive in the book, ae are the sounds of Central Europe on the edge of the abyss – the epoch itself set free by Canetti’s words.

Condition :

• Book :
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• Dust Jacket :
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  2. Normal wear with light soiling, fading, and small dings.

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