Elias Canetti, Die gerettete Zunge. Geschichte einer Jugend [The Tongue Set Free: Remembrance of a European Childhood]

Dagmar C. G. Lorenz (University of Illinois at Chicago)

Ed. by Gerhard P. Knapp, University of Utah
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.4.1: German-language Writing and Culture: Germany, 500-present.
Vol. editors: Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah), Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1977

Places

Bulgaria (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Autobiography (any)

Resources

The first part of Nobel Prize laureate Elias Canetti’s autobiography, Die gerettete Zunge. Geschichte einer Jugend [The Tongue Set Free. Remembrance of a European Childhood, 1977] and the sequels, Die Fackel im Ohr [The Torch in My Ear, 1980] and Das Augenspiel [The Play of the Eyes, 1985], must be read within the context of other memoirs by European Jews born at the fin-de-siècle. These works bear testimony to the authors’ personal experience, their lost culture, and the cataclysmic events of their era, the Holocaust and exile. Die gerettete Zunge …

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Citation: Lorenz, Dagmar C. G.. "Die gerettete Zunge. Geschichte einer Jugend". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 23 June 2006 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=15717, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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