Fifty Disguises: Selections from The Book Against Death, Translated by Professor Peter Filkins for the Paris Review
“With every hour spent alone, with every sentence that you draft, you win back a piece of your life,” writes Elias Canetti in The Book Against Death. Visiting Professor of Literature Peter Filkins has translated from the German a selection of Canetti’s short writings—spanning nearly 60 years—about the nature of death. “Canetti’s notes are neither morose nor gloomy,” Filkins observes. “Sardonic, mercurial, aghast, enigmatic, passionate—they are fueled by the fire of a man writing for life against death, in a century and locale suffused with the latter.”
Post Date: 01-07-2022
Post Date: 01-07-2022