Auto Da Fe

ISBN-13: 9781843432586 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 464 str.

Elias Canetti

Opis

Iris Murdoch called Auto da Fe "one of the few great novels of the century." Peter Kien is a reclusive Sinologist living in Germany between the wars. Canetti creates the elements in Kien, and in his personal relationships, that will lead to his destruction."

Recenzje

One of the few undoubted masterpieces of our time John Davenport

O autorze

Elias Canetti (1905-1994) born of Spanish-Jews parents, lived in in Vienna until 1937 and spent much of his working life in Britain during and after the war. He became a British citizen in 1952 but wrote in German, the language of his childhood and youth spent in Vienna, Zurich and Frankfurt.