The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit

ISBN-13: 9780141195629 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 128 str.

Elias Canetti

Opis

Captures the essence of Marrakesh: the crowds, the smells - of spices, camels and the souks - and the sounds of the city, from the cries of the blind beggars and the children's call for alms to the unearthly silence on the still roofs above the hordes.

Recenzje

Canetti's feeling for the Orient is perceptible in The Voices of Marrakesh, a unique travel book John Bayley London Review of Books

O autorze

Elias Canetti (1905-1994) is best known in the English-speaking world for Crowds and Power, Kafka's Other Trial and for the classic Auto-de-Fe. His family moved from Bulgaria to England, then Vienna, and he settled back in England in 1938. In 1981 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was cited by the Swedish Academy for his 'writings marked by a broad outlook and wealth of ideas and artistic power'.