The Book Against Death
by Elias Canetti, Peter Filkins
2014Norton & Company Limited, W. W.ISBN 9780811237994
About this book
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 - interposed with material from philosophers and writers including Goethe, Kafka, Walter Benjamin and Robert Walser.
Publication Details
- Publisher
- Norton & Company Limited, W. W.
- Published
- 2014
- ISBN
- 9780811237994
About Elias Canetti
Elias Canetti (Bulgarian: Елиас Канети; 25 July 1905 – 14 August 1994) was a German-language writer, known as a modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and nonfiction writer. Born in Ruse, Bulgaria, to a Sephardic Jewish family, he later lived in England, Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. He won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power". He is noted for his nonfiction book *Crowds and Power,* among other works.
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