The Tongue Set Free

Author: Elias Canetti
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 037460780X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 278

Book Description
Winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize, this first volume of the author's autobiography provides a searching portrait of his personal background and creative development. Elias Canetti was one of the major intellectual figures and polymaths of the twentieth century. A master of many genres, he is known especially for his novel, Auto-da-Fe, and his great work of social theory, Crowds and Power. But Canetti's genius is perhaps nowhere more evident than in the three volumes of his autobiography. This first volume, Tongue Set Free, provides a searching portrait of the author's personal background and creative development as it presents the events, personalities (especially Canetti's mother), and intellectual forces that shaped the growth of the artist as a young man.

The Tongue Set Free

Author: Elias Canetti
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 9780330300599
Category : Authors, Austrian
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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The Play of the Eyes

Author: Elias Canetti
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374607788
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
The Play of the Eyes is the third volume in Nobel Prize winning author Elias Canetti's trilogy of memoirs. Here, Canetti describes his young adult life as he tries to make it as a writer in Vienna during the 1930s, and provides vivid accounts of the remarkable figures he meets along the way, usually in cafes, from Robert Musil, Thomas Mann, and Herman Broch, among others. "Canetti uses a dramatist's gifts here to achieve emotional depth; his mother's death, sketched simply against the backdrop of a crumbling Europe, takes on a tragic dignity." - Publishers Weekly

The Memoirs of Elias Canetti

Author: Elias Canetti
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
ISBN: 9780374527143
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 834

Book Description
A compelling account of the development of a great artist, and a portrait of the tragic character of an entire era The uncompromising achievement of Elias Canetti has been matched by few writers this century. Canetti worked brilliantly in many forms, but the three volumes that comprise his autobiography are where his genius is perhaps most evident. The first volume, The Tongue Set Free, presents the events, personalities, and intellectual forces that fed Canetti's early creative development. The Torch in My Ear explores his admiration for the first great mentor of his adulthood, Karl Krauss, and also describes his first marriage. The final volume, The Play of the Eyes, is set in Vienna between 1931 and 1937, with the European catastrophe imminent; here he vividly portrays relationships with Hermann Broch and Robert Musil, among others.

Boxy an Star

Author: Daren King
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780349111919
Category : Drug addicts
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
Us me an Star walkin down the road with a stride and a spring in our step coz it is spring. Star smilin with pills in side an spring out side an pills in me too an times I dont know what one is better nor one ends neither nor the other begins' Boxy the black transvestite drug dealer and Star the teenage nymphomaniac trash junky are the two poles of Bole's universe. Fourth generation pill-takers, born thru a sieve and growing up on spangles and E, their brains so scrambled they have to write themselves instructions on how to get up in the morning, Bole and Star are in love. But as they stumble through the days, trying to do the right thing but borrowing pills from the wrong people, dodging conjurors and pineappleheads (policemen), love isn't necessarily what they need to survive. Vivid, tender, funny and dangerous, like A CLOCKWORK ORANGE for the post-Ecstasy generation, BOXY AN STAR summons up an entire future world with breathtaking originality. And with its extraordinary hero and heroine it is also a tender and utterly contemporary love story - quite unlike any other you'll have read before.

Without a Name and Under the Tongue

Author: Yvonne Vera
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374528160
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249

Book Description
Two short stories about two young Zimbabwe women.

Crowds and Power

Author: Elias Canetti
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 9781842120545
Category : Collective behavior
Languages : en
Pages : 495

Book Description
How do crowds work? What is the nature of their unique creation - the demagogue? This is the renowned and original analysis of one of the 20th century's most threatening and influential phenomena by the Nobel Prize-winning thinker Elias Canetti.

The World Set Free

Author: H. G. Wells
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing
ISBN: 1398832804
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
In this chilling science fiction novel by H.G. Wells, rich and powerful men wage the ultimate war "to end all wars". Published in 1914, The World Set Free was ahead of its time, telling the story of how newly-acquired nuclear weapons led to warfare between nations. In the book, Wells explores how social and moral dilemmas can result in self-destruction and chaos before eventually leading to solutions that create a unique utopia. Even today, this classic novel speaks to the challenges society faces due to the rise of science and technology. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Arcturus Classics series brings together high-quality paperback editions of classics works, presented with contemporary graphic cover designs. Together they make a wonderful collection which is perfect for any home library.

Hung by the Tongue

Author: Francis Martin
Publisher: Francis P. Martin Pub.
ISBN: 9780965243308
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Power of the Tongue

Author: Bill Winston
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781931289405
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
Did you know that you can turn your life around simply by changing the words that you speak. You will learn that your life is impacted by the words that proceed out of your mouth. Proverbs 1:21 states, B"Death and Life are in the power of the tongueBB"