ARGONAUT BOOKS

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 - interposed with material from philosophers and writers including Goethe, Kafka, Walter Benjamin and Robert Walser. Reviews 'Bereavements provide the personal background to Canetti's preoccupation with death, but there was also a political dimension. Though he spent the First World War in neutral Switzerland, the carnage and its aftermath darkened the horizon for his ...Read More