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.
ISBN: | 9781847083579 |
Publication date: | 4th August 2011 |
Author: | Elias Canetti |
Publisher: | Granta Books an imprint of Granta Publications |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 384 pages |
Genres: |
Autobiography: general Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 |