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020			_a9781804270899
037			_cPurchased _nPrism Books, Kadavanthra
041			_aEnglish
082			_aF _bCAN/BO
100			_aElias Canetti
245			_aBOOK AGAINST DEATH
250			_a1
260			_aUK _bFitzcarraldo Editions _c2024
300			_g334
500			_aTranslated from German by Peter Filkins. In 1937, Elias Canetti began collecting notes for the project that ‘by definition, he could never live to complete’, as translator Peter Filkins writes in his afterword. The Book Against Death is the work of a lifetime: a collection of Canetti’s aphorisms, diatribes, musings and commentaries on and against death – published in English for the first time since his death in 1994 – interspersed with material from philosophers and writers including Goethe, Walter Benjamin and Robert Walser. This major work by the 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate is a disarming and often darkly comic reckoning with the inevitability of death and with its politicization, evoking despair at the loss of loved ones and the impossibility of facing one’s own death, while fiercely protesting the mass deaths incurred during war and the willingness of the despot to wield death as power. Infused with fervour and vitality, The Book Against Death ultimately forms a moving affirmation of the value of life itself.
650			_aGerman Literature
650			_aFiction
650			_aNovel
700			_aPeter Filkins (tr.)
942			_cLEN
942			_2ddc
999			_c197119 _d197119