Auto Da Fe (Picador Books)

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ISBN-10:

0330255568

ISBN-13:

9780330255561

Author(s): CANETTI, Elias
Released: Jan 01, 1978
Publisher: Picador
Format: Paperback, 428 pages
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Description:

Auto-da-Fé, Elias Canetti's only work of fiction, is a staggering achievement that puts him squarely in the ranks of major European writers such as Robert Musil and Hermann Broch. It is the story of Peter Kien, a scholarly recluse who lives among and for his great library. The destruction of Kien through the instrument of the illiterate, brutish housekeeper he marries constitutes the plot of the book. The best writers of our time have been concerned with the horror of the modern world--one thinks of Kafka, to whom Canetti has often been compared. But Auto-de-Fé stands as a completely original, unforgettable treatment of the modern predicament.











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