{"product_id":"party-in-the-blitz-elias-canetti-9780811216364","title":"Party in the Blitz","description":"\u003cb\u003eA stunning and unexpected new volume of Elias Canetti's autobiography. A surprise gift to celebrate the Nobel Laureate's 100th birthday.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Nobel Prize winner Elias Canetti, at 85, beset by the desire to come to terms with his years of exile in Britain, wrote \u003ci\u003eParty in the Blitz\u003c\/i\u003e. He waited half a century to confront these memories, perhaps because \"in order to be truthful, I should have to track down every needless humiliation I was offered in England, and relive it as the torture it was.\" \u003ci\u003eParty in the Blitz\u003c\/i\u003e dissects that torture with unrestrained acerbity, recounting the ordeal of being in a new country where not a soul knew his writing. But not one to be ignored, \"the godmonster of Hempstead\" (as John Bayley dubbed Canetti) soon knew everyone and everyone knew him. Enoch Powell, Bertrand Russell, Iris Murdoch, Empson, Wittgenstein, Kokoshka, Kathleen Raine, Henry Moore, Ralph Vaughn Williams: Canetti knew them all, and in Party in the Blitz he mercilessly rakes some of them over the coals. He detested T.S. Eliot and came to bitterly despise Iris Murdoch, with whom he had an affair: Every word of his devastating portrait of her quivers with rage. \"He must have been a frequent party-goer,\" as Jeremy Adler remarks in his excellent afterword, \"to judge by the well-informed distaste with which he recalls them.\" Gorgeously translated by Michael Hofmann, \u003ci\u003eParty in the Blitz\u003c\/i\u003e lives up to Canetti's injunction that \"when you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elias Canetti, Michael Hofmann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0811216365\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811216364\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/17\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 249\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.28h x 5.76w x 0.99d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/08\/2005 pg. 229\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2005 pg. 1962\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2005 pg. 84\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/02\/2005 pg. 8\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2005 pg. 716\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/15\/2005","brand":"Elias Canetti","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46383871787263,"sku":"9780811216364","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_217bcb84-654f-4b26-96aa-65481b4dec0f.jpg?v=1733281925","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/party-in-the-blitz-elias-canetti-9780811216364","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}