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The book against death / Elias Canetti ; translated from the German by Peter Filkins ; foreword by Joshua Cohen.
Van Pelt Library PT2605.A58 B553813 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Canetti, Elias, 1905-1994, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Buch gegen den Tod. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Death--Fiction.
- Death.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 314 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Directions, 2024.
- Summary:
- The Book Against Death is the work of a lifetime: a collection of Elias Canetti’s powerful, disarming, and often bleakly comic observations, diatribes, and musings on and against death. Evoking despair, melancholy, and fury, Canetti examines the inevitable demise of all beings—from the ant, the fish, and the worm to an executioner, a court painter, and a Greek god—while fiercely protesting the mass deaths incurred during war and the willingness of despots to wield death as power. Interspersed with material from philosophers and writers such as Goethe, Walter Benjamin, and Robert Walser, The Book Against Death is ultimately a moving affirmation of the value of life itself. -- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Originally published in German as "Das Buch gegen den Tod" by Carl Hanser Verlag, 2014.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 0811237990
- 9780811237994
- OCLC:
- 1397050568
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000060258
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