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The Book Against Death

By Elias Canetti

The Book Against Death Philosophy

The Book Against Death

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
352
Release Date:
2024-06-06
Publication Date:
2024-06-06
Publisher:
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
180427089X
ISBN13:
9781804270899
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
316 g
Height:
118 cm
Width:
193 cm
Thickness:
23 cm
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