Auto DA Fe by Elias Canetti

Auto DA Fe by Elias Canetti

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Auto DA Fe by Elias Canetti

Auto-da-Fé, Elias Canetti's only work of fiction, is a staggering achievement that puts him squarely in the ranks of major European writers such as Robert Musil and Hermann Broch.

It is the story of Peter Kien, a scholarly recluse who lives among and for his great library. The destruction of Kien through the instrument of the illiterate, brutish housekeeper he marries constitutes the plot of the book. The best writers of our time have been concerned with the horror of the modern world--one thinks of Kafka, to whom Canetti has often been compared. But Auto-da-Fé stands as a completely original, unforgettable treatment of the modern predicament.

In 1981, Elias Canetti (1905-1994) received the Nobel Prize in Literature. Crowds and Power, a monumental book of social theory, and three volumes of memoirs, The Tongue Let Free, The Fire in My Ear, and The Play of the Eyes, are among his works.

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ISBN 13 9780374518790
ISBN 10 0374518793
Titel Auto DA Fe
Autor Elias Canetti
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Farrar, Straus And Giroux
Erscheinungsjahr 1984-12-01
Seitenanzahl 464
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