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Title: Tongue Set Free, The
Author: CANETTI ELIAS
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/10/2011
Imprint: GRANTA
Price: $25.00
Publishing status: Active
‘The Tongue Set Free is so beautifully written. It begins with an extraordinary image, Canetti’s earliest memory. He comes out of a room. A man makes him stick out his tongue; if he talks he will cut it off. Years later Canetti realises that this was his nursemaid’s lover, frightening him into silence about their rendezvous. The idea of speaking as the entry into forbidden grown-up life dominates this book. When he is seven his father dies. He is propelled from childhood into adulthood, from his father to his mother, through language. In an extraordinary, cruel episode his mother forces him to learn perfect adult German in three months, to replace her husband as quickly as possible. His tongue is set free: he has won his mother, against brothers and against all lovers.
ISBN: 9781847083562
Dimension: 198mm X 129mm
Pages: 288