The Torch In My Ear

In The Torch in My Ear Elias Canetti, Nobel Prize winner, towering intellectual figure and polymath, gives us his second volume of autobiography. Using as a framework his admiration for his first great mentor, the Viennese writer Karl Kraus, and his passion for his first wife, Veza, Canetti seamlessly incorporates a profoundly perceptive portrait of Vienna and Berlin in the 1920s. Here are the voices of Brecht, Isaac Babel, George Grosz, and many others.

This is autobiography redefining itself.

In Torta din urechea mea, Elias Canetti, laureat al Premiului Nobel, o figura intelectuala uriasa si erudit, ne ofera cel de-al doilea volum al sau de autobiografie. Folosind drept cadru admiratia pentru primul sau mare mentor, scriitorul vienez Karl Kraus, si pasiunea pentru prima sa sotie, Veza, Canetti incorporeaza perfect un portret profund perceptiv al Vienei si Berlinului din anii 1920.