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By Veza Canetti,Elias Canetti,Karen Lauer,David Dollenmayer

ISBN-10: 1590512979

ISBN-13: 9781590512975

In 1934, Veza Taubner and Elias Canetti have been married in Vienna. Elias describes the association to his brother Georges as a “functional” marriage. in the meantime, an severe highbrow love affair develops among Veza and Georges, a tender health care provider anguish fromtuberculosis. 4 years later, Veza and Elias flee Nazi-ruled Vienna to London, the place they lead an impoverished and intensely advanced marital lifestyles in exile.
Spanning the foremost a part of Elias’s fight for literary popularity, from 1933, prior to the book of his novel, Auto-da-Fé, to 1959, while he comprehensive his huge Crowds and Power, the Canetti letters offer an intimate examine those adolescence throughout the prism of a veritable love triangle: the newly married Elias has a string of enthusiasts; his spouse, Veza, is hopelessly in love with an idealized photograph of his youngest brother, Georges; and Georges is interested in sturdy having a look males in addition to to his motherly sister-in-law. Independently and sometimes secretly, the couple communicates with Georges, who lives in Paris: Veza tells of Elias’s amorous escapades and bouts of insanity, Elias complains approximately Veza’s bad nerves and melancholy. each one of them concerns approximately Georges’s health–if she may, Veza might kiss away the germs. Georges is an rare correspondent, yet he diligently shops away the letters from his brother and sister-in-law. In 2003, lengthy after his dying, they have been by accident stumbled on in a Paris basement and contain not just a relocating and insightful rfile, yet actual literature.

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