Elias Canetti

Providing a portrait of the author's personal background and creative development, this book presents the events, personalities and intellectual forces which shaped the growth of this artist as a young man. It covers his up-bringing in Bulgaria and later homes in Manchester, Vienna and Zurich. He was born in 1905 and …

The secret heart of the clock : notes, aphorisms, fragments, 1973-1985 is a 1989 book by Elias Canetti.