The Paris Review - On Elias Canetti's Book Against Death
“This book, in our reading of it as in Canetti’s writing of it, is a type of life traveler’s talisman or amulet, a prose garlic bulb or rabbit-foot.”
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“This book, in our reading of it as in Canetti’s writing of it, is a type of life traveler’s talisman or amulet, a prose garlic bulb or rabbit-foot.”
The Booker Prize winner finds that something has been lost in the age of knowledge seeking
An excerpt from ‘Formations’ that talks about how ‘Book One,’ by Sharmistha Mohanty, came into being.
Over a century ago, Austria-Hungary collapsed and a generation of writers wrote about what it was like to have your whole world melt away.
Brett E. Sterling, associate professor of German and a U of A alum, has won the Radomír Luža Prize for his first book, Hermann Broch and Mass Hysteria: Theory and Representation in the Age of Extremes.