{"product_id":"the-secret-heart-of-the-clock-9780374530600","title":"The Secret Heart of the Clock","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom one of the preeminent intellectual figures of the twentieth century, a highly personal testimonial of what Canetti himself chooses to term \"notations,\" bits and pieces: notes, aphorisms, fragments. Taken together, they present an awesomely tender, guiltily gloomy meditation on death and aging.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\" A mosaical portrait of an old body's mind determined to do its exercises and not lose a step--and fascinating for that.\" - \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eElias Canetti\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1905 into a Sephardi Jewish family in Ruse, Bulgaria. He moved to Vienna in 1924, where he became involved in literary circles while studying for a degree in chemistry. He remained in Vienna until the Anschluss, when he emigrated to England and later to Switzerland, where he died in 1994. In 1981, Canetti was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for \"writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas, and artistic power.\" His books include \u003ci\u003eCrowds and Powers\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAuto-da-Fe, \u003c\/i\u003eand a trilogy of memoirs. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoel Agee\u003c\/b\u003e has translated Elias Canetti, Friedrich D?renmatt, Gottfried Benn, and a collection of Rilke's letters, \u003ci\u003eRilke and Benvenuta: An Intimate Correspondence\u003c\/i\u003e. He won the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for his translation of Heinrich von Kleist's \u003ci\u003ePenthesilea, \u003c\/i\u003e a verse play. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eTwelve Years: An American Boyhood in East Germany\u003c\/i\u003e and lives in Brooklyn.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Strauss \u0026 Giroux-3pl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50872560582930,"sku":"9780374530600","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_cbb12fd9-2e04-40a7-b48a-b16c16d1361a.jpg?v=1737901953","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-secret-heart-of-the-clock-9780374530600","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}