The Tongue Set Free: Remembrance of a European Childhood (Picador Books)

The Tongue Set Free: Remembrance of a European Childhood (Picador Books)

by Elias Canetti (Author), J. Neugroschel (Translator)

Synopsis

Providing a portrait of the author's personal background and creative development, this book presents the events, personalities and intellectual forces which shaped the growth of this artist as a young man. It covers his up-bringing in Bulgaria and later homes in Manchester, Vienna and Zurich. He was born in 1905 and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981. This is the first volume of this three-volume autobiography by the author of "Auto de Fe".

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Edition: New
Publisher: Picador
Published: 11 Aug 1989

ISBN 10: 0330300598
ISBN 13: 9780330300599
Book Overview: Author won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981