The tongue set free : remembrance of a European childhood

Author(s)

• Canetti, Elias

Bibliographic Information

The tongue set free : remembrance of a European childhood

Elias Canetti ; translated from the German by Joachim Neugroschel

Granta, 1999, c1979

Other Title

Gerettete Zunge

Uniform Title

Die gerettete Zunge

Note

First published as "Die Gerettete Zunge : Geschichte einer Jugend" by Carl Hanser, c1977

This translation originally published: New York : Seabury, 1979

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This is the first volume of Elias Canetti's autobiography, preceding "The Torch in My Ear" and "The Play of the Eyes". It provides a searching portrait of Canetti's personal background and creative development as it presents the events, personalities and intellectual forces that shaped the growth of this artist as a young man during his early years in Bulgaria, Manchester, Zurich and Vienna.

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Details

• NCID: BA60398907
• ISBN:
  • 1862073031
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: ger
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: ix, 268 p.
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • DC21 : 838.91209
• Subject Headings:
  • BLSH : Canetti, Elias, 1905- -- Childhood and youth
  • LCSH : Authors, Austrian -- 20th century