Notes from Hampstead: The Writer's Notes: 1954-1971 Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Notes from Hampstead: The Writer's Notes: 1954-1971 Book

Nobel Prize winner Elias Canetti kept this writer's journal from 1954 to 1971 while he was living in London and writing, among other things, Crowds and Power. It's a deliberately unstructured list of ideas and possibilities from which his thematic obsessions emerge only gradually. Most entries are just a sentence or two in length, varying in quality from the obvious to the profound. Many take the tantalizing form of a fictional premise not followed through ("A country where everyone walks backwards, to keep an eye on themselves. A country where all turn their backs on one another: fear of eyes.") But the overall tone, as with his other writings, is more gnomically philosophical. A typical stand-alone entry reads, "There is something sickening about all advocacy: only pure admiration is real." --Richard FarrRead More

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  • 0374530599
  • 9780374530594
  • Elias Canetti
  • 30 December 2005
  • Farrar Straus Giroux
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 228
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