The Tongue Set Free

2011

Years later Canetti realises that this was his nursemaid's lover, frightening him into silence about their rendezvous. The idea of speaking as the entry into forbidden grown-up life dominates this book. When he is seven his father dies.

Author: Elias Canetti

Publisher: Granta Books (UK)

ISBN: 1847083560

Category: Authors, Austrian

Page: 288

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This is the first volume of Elias Canetti's autobiography. He presents an account of the events, personalities and intellectual forces that shaped his growth as an artist during his early years in Bulgaria, Manchester, Zurich and Vienna.

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