{"product_id":"the-torch-in-my-ear-1","title":"The Torch in My Ear","description":"By Elias Canetti \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTranslated by Joachim Neugroschel \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"His exacting presence honors literature\"—\u003cem\u003eGeorge Steiner\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Canetti is one of our great imaginers and solitary men of genius\"—\u003cem\u003eIris Murdoch\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Canetti is someone who has felt in a profound way the responiblity of words. . . There is no doctrine, but there is a great deal of scorn, urgency, grief, and euphoria. The message of the mind's passions is passion. 'I try to imagine someone saying to Shakespeare, \"Relax!\"' says Canetti. His work eloquently defends tension, exertion, moral and amoral seriousness.\"—\u003cem\u003eSusan Sontag\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eElias Canetti, winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Literature, is one of the major intellectual figures of the twentieth century. He is a master of many genres, having written both a great novel—\u003cem\u003eAuto-da-Fe\u003c\/em\u003e—and a great work of social theory\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCrowds and Power\u003c\/em\u003e. But Canetti's genius is perhaps nowhere more evident than in his autobiography. \u003cem\u003eThe Torch in My Ear,\u003c\/em\u003e the second volume of Canetti's memoirs, is above all else the account of his admiration for the first great mentor of his adulthood, the Viennese writer Karl Kraus. The book is also a portrait of Canetti's first wife, Veza. Within the framework of these great passions, Canetti provides an astonishing account of the Vienna and Berlin of the 1920s. The voices of Kraus, Veza, and Canetti's mother are accompanied by those of Brecht, Isaac Babel, George Grosz, and many others. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaperback\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e384 pages\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFarrar Straus \u0026amp; Giroux, 1983\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e6 x 9 inches\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN 9780374518042\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBiography","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42806544171176,"sku":"9780374518042","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/products\/The_Torch_in_my_Ear.jpg?v=1665258090","url":"https:\/\/neue-galerie-design-shop.myshopify.com\/products\/the-torch-in-my-ear-1","provider":"Neue Galerie Design Shop \u0026 Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}