The Tongue Set Free: Remembrance of a European Childhood

by Elias Canetti

Book Overview

Winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize, this first volume of the author's autobiography provides a searching portrait of his personal background and creative development. Elias Canetti was one of the major... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816491038
• ISBN13: 9780816491032
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Seabury Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A remarkable bildungsroman

Canetti describes his travels as a wealthy spanish jew around many different european countries preceding and during the great war. His fiercely intellectual mother, uber-capitalist uncles, and antisemitic neighbors make for an incredibly interesting portrait.