In The Torch in My Ear Elias Canetti, Nobel Prize winner, towering intellectual figure and polymath, gives us his second volume of autobiography. Using as a framework his admiration for his first great mentor, the Viennese writer Karl Kraus, and his passion for his first wife, Veza, Canetti seamlessly incorporates a profoundly perceptive portrait of Vienna and Berlin in the 1920s. Here are the voices of Brecht, Isaac Babel, George Grosz, and many others. This is autobiography redefining itself.
- ISBN10 1847083579
- ISBN13 9781847083579
- Publish Date 4 August 2011 (first published 1 August 1989)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Granta Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 384
- Language English