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The Tongue Set Free, Remembrance of a European ChildhoodCode: 40319312
- Author: Elias Canetti
- Publisher: Granta Books
- Μορφή: Soft Cover
- Έτος έκδοσης: 2011
- Αριθμός σελίδων: 288
- Κωδικός ISBN-13: 9781847083562
- Διαστάσεις: 13×19.7
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Description
The idea of speaking as the entry into forbidden grown-up life dominates this book. When he is seven his father dies. He is propelled from childhood into adulthood, from his father to his mother, through language. In an extraordinary, cruel episode his mother forces him to learn perfect adult German in three months, to replace her husband as quickly as possible. His tongue is set free: he has won his mother, against brothers , against all lovers. It is the most intense Oedipal relationhsip I have ever seen described and Canetti describes it brilliantly. But it's all extraordinary, and all masterfully written. There are wonderful descriptions of Canetti's first oriental, medieval home in pre-World War l Bulgaria: of his later homes in Manchester, in Vienna, in Switzerland.
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- Subtitle
- Remembrance of a European Childhood
- Format
- Soft Cover
- Number of Pages
- 288
- Publication Date
- 2011
- Dimensions
- 13x19.7 cm
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