The secret heart of the clock

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by  Canetti, Elias, 1905-

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The Secret Heart of
the Clock
ALSO BY ELIAS CANETTI
Auto-da-Fe
The Conscience of Words
Crowds and Power
Earwitness: Fifty Characters
The Human Province
The Plays of Elias Canetti
The Tongue Set Free:
Remembrance of a European Childhood
The Torch in My Ear
The Voices of Marrakesh:
A Record of a Visit
The Play of the Eyes
Essays in Honor of Elias Canetti
The Secret Heart of
the Clock
NOTES, APHORISMS, FRAGMENTS
1973-19$S
ELI AS C A N E T T I
Translated from the German by Joel Agee
Farrar Straus Giroux
NEW YORK
English translation copyright © 1989 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
First published in German under the title Das Geheimherz der Uhr,
copyright © 1987 by Carl Hanser Verlag
All rights reserved
First American edition, 1989
Published in Canada by Collins Publishers, Toronto
Printed in the United States of America
Designed by Kathleen Carey
Library of Congress Cataloging-m-Publication Data
Canetti, Elias.
[Geheimherz der Uhr. English]
The secret heart of the clock : notes, aphorisms, fragments,
1973-198s / Elias Canetti; translated from the German by Joel Agee.
—1st American ed.
p. cm.
Translation of: Das Geheimherz der Uhr.
I. Title.
PT260S.AS8G3S13 1989
838'.91202—dci9 89-1619
CODMAN SQUARE
Hera Canetti

The Secret Heart of
the Clock