Elias Canetti - The Book Against Death _alt_Daniel Arnold - You Are What You Do desire and spectatorship

desire and spectatorship

Long considered one of Simone de Beauvoir’s masterpieces

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In May 1968

Elias Canetti - The Book Against Death _alt_Daniel Arnold - You Are What You Do desire and spectatorshipIn 1937, Elias Canetti began collecting notes for the project that by definition, he could never live to complete, as translator Peter Filkins writes in his afterword. The Book Against Death is the work of a lifetime: a collection of Canettis aphorisms, diatribes, musings and commentaries on and against death published in English for the first time since his death in 1994 interspersed with material from philosophers and writers including Goethe,