Bookshelf
study guides books reading lists e-books
home sign in my orders my e-books my trolley my account contact
| can't find it |

| browse books |
books
 

books

| book details |

The Book Against Death

By (author) Elias Canetti, Translated by Peter Filkins, Preface by Joshua Cohen

| on special |

normal price: R 370.95

Price: R 351.95

| book description |

In 1937, Elias Canetti began collecting notes for the project that ‘by definition, he could never live to complete’, as translator Peter Filkins writes in his afterword. The Book Against Death is the work of a lifetime: a collection of Canetti’s aphorisms, diatribes, musings and commentaries on and against death – published in English for the first time since his death in 1994 – interspersed with material from philosophers and writers including Goethe, Walter Benjamin and Robert Walser. This major work by the 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate is a disarming and often darkly comic reckoning with the inevitability of death and with its politicization, evoking despair at the loss of loved ones and the impossibility of facing one’s own death, while fiercely protesting the mass deaths incurred during war and the willingness of the despot to wield death as power. Infused with fervour and vitality, The Book Against Death ultimately forms a moving affirmation of the value of life itself.

| product details |



Normally shipped | Available from overseas. Dispatched in aprox 4-8 weeks as local supplier is out of stock
Publisher | Fitzcarraldo Editions
Published date | 6 Jun 2024
Language | English
Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 352
Dimensions | 197 x 121 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-1-8042-7089-9
Readership Age |
BISAC | literary collections / essays

| other options |



Normally shipped | Available from overseas. Usually dispatched in 14 days
Readership Age |
Normal Price | R 447.95
 Price | R 425.95 | on special |

| back |
| your trolley |
To view the items in your trolley please sign in.
| sign in |

| specials |

The Silent Patient: The record-breaking, multimillion copy Sunday Times bestselling thriller and TikTok sensation

Alex Michaelides
Paperback / softback
352 pages
was: R 280.95
now: R 252.95
Available from overseas. Dispatched in aprox 4-8 weeks as local supplier is out of stock
With film rights snapped up by an Oscar winning Hollywood production company, rights sold in a world record 43 territories, and rave blurbs from David Baldacci, Lee Child and A.

Free Your Mind: The new world of manipulation and how to resist it

Laura Dodsworth
Paperback / softback
384 pages
was: R 300.95
now: R 270.95
Available from overseas. Dispatched in aprox 4-8 weeks as local supplier is out of stock
The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller Learn how to recognise and resist the daily attempts to control and manipulate your mind.

The Thing at 52

Mr. Ross Montgomery
Hardback
40 pages
was: R 363.95
now: R 345.95
Usually dispatched in 3 to 4 weeks as supplier is out of stock
The Thing at 52 is a beautiful picture book about friendship, loneliness and learning how to say goodbye.
 
Copyright 2024 |  terms and conditions