{"product_id":"agony-of-flies-notes-and-notations-9780374524104","title":"Agony of Flies: Notes and Notations","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAgony of Flies: Notes and Notations\u003c\/strong\u003e by Canetti, Elias. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780374524104.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElias Canetti, winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature, here offers a quintessential selection from the wealth of his short writings. Remarkable for their uncommon candor and originality, these flashes of thought illuminate a half century of Canettis existential and intellectual development. By turns enigmatic and profound, anguished and humorous, Canettis concentrated reflections reveal his grand themes - the mystery of love, the meaninglessness of history, the ambiguity of language, the problem of power, mankinds savagery toward other living creatures. Canettis hatred of dogma, his passionate protest against aging and death stand out with unparalleled clarity, as does the deep ethical awareness at the core of his creativity. An autobiography stripped bare, a self-portrait of a mind, The Agony of Flies, presented in a bilingual edition, provides privileged insight into the life and thought of \"one of our great imaginers and solitary men of genius\" (Iris Murdoch).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45212575989813,"sku":"ByrdShop_0374524106","price":83.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780374524104_fde45b81-31b7-4940-a3fd-4c65990df3bd.jpg?v=1779902887","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/agony-of-flies-notes-and-notations-9780374524104","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}