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Title: The Book Against Death

Author: Joshua Canetti, Elias; Filkins, Peter; Cohen

ISBN: 9780811237994

Publisher: New Directions

Published: 2024

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Number of Pages: 432

Condition Note: New from the publisher

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The Book Against Death is the work of a lifetime: a collection of Elias Canetti’s powerful, disarming, and often bleakly comic observations, diatribes, musings, and commentaries on and against death. Evoking despair, melancholy, and fury, Canetti examines the inevitable demise of all beings–from the ant, the fish, and the worm to an executioner, a court painter, and a Greek god–while fiercely protesting the mass deaths incurred during war and the willingness of the despot to wield death as power. Interspersed with material from philosophers and writers such as Goethe, Walter Benjamin, and Robert Walser, The Book Against Death is ultimately a moving affirmation of the value of life itself.

Canetti famously refused to die before he’d read all his obituaries and corrected them.

“I accept no death.”–Elias Canetti (1905-1994)