The Book Against Death -- Elias Canetti, Paperback Fiction - Western Pilsen & Near South Side

Pilsen & Near South Side

ISBN: 9780593973820

emphasizing that vulnerability is not a weakness but a powerful aspect of their humanity

Pages: 213

The Book Against Death -- Elias Canetti, Paperback Fiction - Western Pilsen & Near South SideThe Book Against Death is the work of a lifetime: a collection of Elias Canetti's powerful, disarming, and often bleakly comic observations, diatribes, musings, and commentaries on and against death. Evoking despair, melancholy, and fury, Canetti examines the inevitable demise of all beings from the ant, the fish, and the worm to an executioner, a court painter, and a Greek god while fiercely protesting the mass deaths incurred during war and the