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Canetti, Elias - The Book Against Death east germany she found a means ofIn 1937, Elias Canetti began collecting notes for the project that by definition, he could never live to complete, as translator Peter Filkins writes in his afterword. The Book Against Death is the work of a lifetime: a collection of Canettis aphorisms, diatribes, musings and commentaries on and against death published in English for the first time since his death in 1994 interspersed with material from philosophers and writers including Goethe,