I Want to Keep Smashing Myself Until I Am Whole

"A brilliant selection . . . Canetti''s range astonishes." —Claire Messud, Harper''s

A career-spanning collection of writings by the Nobel laureate Elias Canetti, edited and introduced by Pulitzer Prize winner Joshua Cohen.

He embarked on no adventures, he was in no war. He was never in prison, he never killed anyone. He neither won nor lost a fortune. All he ever did was live in this century. But t...