The Secret Heart of the Clock: Notes, Aphorisms, Fragments, 1973-1985
Language: English
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Gastown Bookwurm, Vancouver, BC, CanadaGastown Bookwurm
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Hardcover. 1989. !1st American edition stated. 11pp. Near Fine book in price clipped VG+ DJ. Text block is bright, clean, & free of marks some wear to edges, hinges firm. Boards have some age & shelf wear, but clean & free of blemishes. DJ has some scuffs from shelf wear and 3 small tears: 1" in middle top, 0.5" back top left, and a small ding along edge of back board. Translated by Joel Agee.
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- Title
- The Secret Heart of the Clock: Notes, Aphorisms, Fragments, 1973-1985
- Author
- Elias Canetti
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Publication year
- 1989
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0374256942
- ISBN 13
- 9780374256944
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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.
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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.
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