The Torch In My Ear

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Torch In My Ear
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Elias Canetti
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:384
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
ISBN/Barcode 9781847083579
ClassificationsDewey:838.91209
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Granta Books
Imprint Granta Books
Publication Date 4 August 2011
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Author Biography

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 especially 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.