Canetti, Elias - The Book Against Death Edition Osman Nusairi

Osman Nusairi

Tenants of a vision we rent out endlessly

conversion to Christianity was replaced by a civilizing mission

things are never settled or defined

the raw materials come back in the form of machinery to transform the mountains

Canetti, Elias - The Book Against Death Edition Osman NusairiIn 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 Canettis 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,