Description
In this second book of his autobiographical trilogy, The Torch in the Ear , Elias Canetti carries the reader into the complex atmosphere of his youth in Vienna. Canetti, who describes both his childhood traumas and the course of his first relationships with literature and culture in Liberated Language , reveals his transformation process into a young and passionate man of letters in this work; without hiding, avoiding, arrogance and open-heartedly.
In Canetti's lines, the uncertainty that dominates Vienna, the capital of a collapsed empire after the Great War, those who try to face economic difficulties and understand the atrocities of the new century, angry masses, artists who believe in the sanctity of literature and the word, poor poets and rich patrons, all colors. and "Canetti's people" are depicted with their contradictions. For those who want to have the chance to read the author's ebb and flow relationship with society and himself, from his honest pen...