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The Thirty Years War

Europe in 1618 was divided between Protestants and Catholics, and Bourbon and Hapsburg, as well as empires, kingdoms, and countless independent states. After angry Protestants tossed three representatives of the Holy Roman Empire out the window of the roy

A Coffin for King Charles: The Trial and Execution of Charles I

King Charles I was his own worst enemy. Self-righteous, arrogant, and unscrupulous, he had a penchant for making bad decisions. His troubles began the moment he ascended the throne in 1625 upon the death of his father James I. Charles simultaneously alien

The Memoirs of Elias Canetti: The Tongue Set Free/The Torch in My Ear/The Play of the Eyes

A compelling account of the development of a great artist, and a portrait of the tragic character of an entire eraThe uncompromising achievement of Elias Canetti has been matched by few writers this century. Canetti worked brilliantly in many forms, but t

The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit

Winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Literature, Elias Canetti uncovers the secret life hidden beneath Marrakesh’s bewildering array of voices, gestures and faces. In a series of sharply etched scenes, he portrays the languages and cultures of the people

Kafka's Other Trial: The Letters to Felice

Felice Bauer was Kafka's first great love and the inspiration for his first great fiction. Six weeks after they met, he wrote "The Judgment" for her in one night of feverish activity. Kafka always inferred to the traumatic, public breaking-off of their en

Crowds and Power

Crowds and Power is a revolutionary work in which Elias Canetti finds a new way of looking at human history and psychology. Breathtaking in its range and erudition, it explores Shiite festivals and the English Civil war, the finger exercises of monkeys an

The Human Province

Elias Canetti “Notlar”ıyla dünya edebiyatında kendine özgü bir yazın türü yaratmıştır. Yazar, İnsanın Taşrası adını verdiği ve 1942-1972 yılları arasındaki notlarını içeren kitabında, yaşadığı dünyada herkesten ve her şe

Earwitness: Fifty Characters

The Torch in My Ear

The Torch in My Ear is the account of Canetti's young manhood, of his arrival in Vienna in the early 1920s, of his schooling, and of the beginning of his life as a writer.