I Want to Keep Smashing Myself Until I Am Whole: An Elias Canetti Reader

Title: I Want to Keep Smashing Myself Until I Am Whole: An Elias Canetti Reader Author: Elias Canetti ISBN: 9780374298425 Publisher: Picador Paper Published: 2022 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New Non-Fiction 1607279 Publisher Description: "A brilliant selection . . . Canetti's range astonishes." --Claire Messud, Harper'sA career-spanning collection of writings by the Nobel laureate Elias Canetti, edited and introduced by Pulitzer Prize winner Joshua Cohen. He embarked on no adventures, he was in no war. He was never in prison, he never killed anyone. He neither won nor lost a fortune. All he ever did was live in this century. But that alone was enough to give his life dimension, both of feeling and of thought. Here, in his own words, is one of the twentieth century's foremost chroniclers: a dizzyingly inventive, formally unplaceable, unstoppably peripatetic writer