“Everything you rejected and pushed aside—take it up again.”

—  Elias Canetti

J. Agee, trans. (1989), p. 106
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock] (1987)

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Bulgarian-born Swiss and British jewish modernist novelist,… 1905–1994

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