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| | 2. |  | Crowds and Power
from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Price: $12.24
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Well, if I'd ever once been a cockeyed optimist or a believer in the inherent goodness of humanity, this book would certainly have knocked the foundations out from under me and brought all my idealism crashing down. Fortunately, I guess, I already stand in the after-world of shattered... more info
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| | 3. | [no image] | Auto-Da-Fe
from Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The first part of the book reminded me of some familiar dark comedy, maybe an early Nabokov or the neglected American author Russell Greenan. In the second part, our protagonist leaves his bookish sanctuary for a series of delusional misadventures, accompanied by a differently delusional dwarf, who... more info
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| | 4. |  | The Torch in My Ear
from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Price: $29.00
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Of Canetti's three volumes of memoirs, this is the most useful and widely appealing. The first volume is strictly about his family--well written but of narrow interest. This second volume covers the artistic ferment of 1920s Vienna and Berlin. Everything is fresh and beautifully rendered, but the... more info
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| | 6. |  | Party in the Blitz: The English Years
from New Directions
Price: $22.95
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I worship the late Elias Canetti. If nobody's heard of him, it's because we live in a culture that is fundamentally ignorant and under-educated. CROWDS AND POWER should be required reading in every school in this nation. Canetti's cycle of memoirs collectively comprises some of the best intellectual... more info
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