the tower of von canetti (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. First edition copy. . No Dust Jacket Rear hinge cracked. Short gifter's inscription on front endpage. (literature, fiction).

First American edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's most well-known work. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Gertrud Kraus in very old friendship from Elias Canetti October 1947." The recipient Gertrud Kraus was an Israeli pioneer of modern dance in Israel and close friend of Canetti. Kraus studied piano at the State Academy in Vienna but after graduating decided that what she really loved was dance. She enrolled again at the State Academy, this time in the modern dance department headed by Gertrud Bodenwieser. After graduation, she joined Bodenwieser's dance company. In the 1920s, Kraus's style was known as expressionistic dance, or German dance. In 1929 Gertrud Kraus, together withÂGisa Geert, was chief assistant toÂRudolf von Laban, director of a trade union parade during the "Vienna Festival" in Vienna. In 1930, an impresario invited her to perform inÂMandate Palestine. Her tour was a great success and she was invited back the following season. In 1933, her company performed her workÂDie Stadt wartetÂ("The City Waits"), presenting the modern metropolis as a fascinating but dangerous place. It was based on a short story byÂMaxim Gorki.ÂIn 1933, while she was in Prague performing for theÂZionist Congress, leaders of a Czech communist cell contacted her and tried to recruit her for their purposes. The next day, she went to the Palestine Office in Prague, and applied for immigration. Kraus moved toÂTel AvivÂin 1935, first living with friends and then renting a basement that became her studio. She formed a modern dance company affiliated with the Tel Aviv Folk Opera, which was probably the only one of its kind in the world. In 1949, she won a scholarship to travel to theÂUnited States to learn the newest trends in modern dance.ÂIn 1950â"1951, she founded the Israel Ballet Theatre, and became its artistic director. In 1968, Kraus was awarded the Israel Prize, in dance. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. Jacket design by George Salter. Translated from the German by C. V. Wedgwood. An exceptional association. Originally published in German as "Die Blendung" in 1935 and later banned in Nazi Germany, Auto-Da-Fe did not become widely known until the publication of Canetti's "Crowds and Power" in 1960. "In Auto-da-Fé no one is spared. Professor and furniture salesman, doctor, housekeeper, and thief all get it in the neck. The remoreseless quality of the comedy builds one of the most terrifying literary worlds of the century" (Salman Rushdie). "Savage, subtle, beautifully mysterious--one of the few great novels of the century" (Iris Murdoch). "A strange, eloquent and terrifying book" (Philip Toynbee). Auto da Fé is the story of Peter Kien, a distinguished, reclusive Sinologist living in Germany between the wars. With masterly precision, Canetti builds up the elements in Kien himself, and his personal relationships, which will lead to his destruction.