The Secret Heart of the Clock: Notes, Aphorisms, Fragments, 1973-1985

Canetti, Elias

ISBN 10: 0374256942 / ISBN 13: 9780374256944

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Secret Heart of the Clock: Notes, Aphorisms, Fragments, 1973-1985
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374256942
• ISBN 13: 9780374256944
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

From one of the preeminent intellectual figures of the twentieth century, a highly personal testimonial of what Canetti himself chooses to term "notations," bits and pieces: notes, aphorisms, fragments. Taken together, they present an awesomely tender, guiltily gloomy meditation on death and aging.

About the Author

Elias Canetti (1905-94) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981. His writings include a monumental work of social theory, Crowds and Power, and three volumes of memoirs, The Tongue Set Free, The Torch in My Ear, and The Play of the Eyes.

 


Joel Agee has translated Elias Canetti, Friedrich Dürenmatt, Gottfried Benn, and a collection of Rilke's letters, Rilke and Benvenuta: An Intimate Correspondence. He won the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for his translation of Heinrich von Kleist's Penthesilea, a verse play. He is the author of Twelve Years: An American Boyhood in East Germany and lives in Brooklyn.