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.
| ISBN: | 9781847083579 |
| Publication date: | 4th August 2011 |
| Author: | Elias Canetti |
| Publisher: | Granta Books an imprint of Granta Publications |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 371 pages |
| Genres: |
Autobiography: general Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 |
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.
The Torch in My Ear features in the following genres: Autobiography: general, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
The Torch in My Ear is available in Paperback
The Torch in My Ear was written by Elias Canetti and published by Granta Books an imprint of Granta Publications
The Torch in My Ear has 371 pages
£8.99