Description
Elias Canetti , who has produced many works in different fields from literature to sociology, this time meets the reader with The Perdition of Flies , in which he deals with the themes of loneliness, death, power and language. It is possible to trace the sparks and way of thinking in the mind of the great writer and thinker in this work, which consists of previously unpublished aphorisms, quotations and memories that he took notes for decades. While Canetti writes his work with the awareness of the magnificent power of language, it is up to his readers to evaluate the deep life experience of the great sage of the 20th century.
"Every word has a victim that it affects violently; sometimes I think that I am the victim of all words. The words that I can get away with, the ones that I can only put on paper; these calm me down; it is as if I were allowed to use these words; when I am dead and gone, I am sure that they will no longer excite me, whatever "Even then, even then, if they ever really exist."