The Secret Heart of the Clock Notes, Aphorisms, Fragments, 1973-1985 [Paperback]

From one of the preeminent intellectual figures of the twentieth century, a highly personal testimonial of what Canetti himself chooses to term notations, bits and pieces: notes, aphorisms, fragments. Taken together, they present an awesomely tender, guiltily gloomy meditation on death and aging.

A mosaical portrait of an old body's mind determined to do its exercises and not lose a step--and fascinating for that. -Kirkus Reviews

Elias Canetti(1905-94) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981. His writings include a monumental work of social theory,Crowds and Power, and three volumes of memoirs,The Tongue Set Free,The Torch in My Ear, andThe Play of the Eyes.

Joel Ageehas translated Elias Canetti, Friedrich D?renmatt, Gottfried Benn, and a collection of Rilke's letters,Rilke and Benvenuta: An Intimate Correspondence. He won the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for his translation of Heinrich von Kleist'sPenthesilea,a verse play. He is the author ofTwelve Years: An American Boyhood in East Germanyand lives in Brooklyn.