The Book Against Death

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 – interposed 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 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.

General

Imprint:	Fitzcarraldo Editions
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2024
Authors:	Elias Canetti
Translators:	Peter Filkins
Preface by:	Joshua Cohen
Dimensions:	197 x 121mm (L x W)
Pages:	420
ISBN-13:	978-1-80427-089-9
Subtitles:	German
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-80427-089-X
Barcode:	9781804270899

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