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Fitzcarraldo Classic No. 5, The Book Against Death


  • Fitzcarraldo Editions (Faber)
  • by Elias Canetti
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.

ISBN 9781804270899 | EN | PB+
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Publisher Fitzcarraldo Editions (Faber)
ISBN 9781804270899
Author(s) Elias Canetti
Publication date June 2024
Edition Paperback with flaps
Dimensions 192 x 112 mm
Pages 424
Language(s) English ed.
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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 - interposed with material from philosophers and writers including Goethe, Walter Benjamin and Robert Walser.

Fitzcarraldo Classic No. 5, The Book Against Death

Fitzcarraldo Classic No. 5, The Book Against Death

€20.50