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The Book Against Death
By (author) Elias Canetti, Translated by Peter Filkins, Preface by Joshua Cohen
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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.
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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
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BISAC | literary collections / essays
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