{"product_id":"9781804270899","title":"The Book Against Death by Elias Canetti","description":"In 1937, Elias Canetti began collecting notes for the project?that `by definition, he could never live to complete', as?translator Peter Filkins writes in his afterword.?The Book?Against Death?is the work of a lifetime: a collection of?Canetti's aphorisms, diatribes, musings and commentaries?on and against death - published in English for the first?time since his death in 1994 - interspersed with material?from philosophers and writers including Goethe, Walter?Benjamin and Robert Walser. This major work by the 1981?Nobel Prize in Literature laureate is a disarming and often?darkly comic reckoning with the inevitability of death and?with its politicization, evoking despair at the loss of loved?ones and the impossibility of facing one's own death,?while fiercely protesting the mass deaths incurred during?war and the willingness of the despot to wield death as?power. Infused with fervour and vitality,?The Book Against?Death?ultimately forms a moving affirmation of the value?of life itself.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56307468304757,"sku":"9781804270899","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781804270899.jpg?v=1762804079","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781804270899","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}