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Provinz des Menschen

Pages
281
Published
1978
Language
English

Synopsis

Elias Canetti's "Provinz des Menschen" offers a profound look into the author's early life and intellectual development. This work explores his formative years, his engagement with philosophy and religion, and his evolving understanding of life and death. It's a personal journey through the experiences that shaped one of the 20th century's significant thinkers.

About the author

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Elias Canetti

Elias Canetti (Bulgarian: Елиас Канети; 25 July 1905 – 14 August 1994) was a German-language writer, known as a modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and nonfiction writer. Born in Ruse, Bulgaria, to a Sephardic Jewish family, he later lived in England, Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. He won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power". He is noted for his nonfiction book Crowds and Power, among other works.