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The Torch in My Ear

by Elias Canetti · 1980

The Memoir Trilogy series

The Torch in My Ear is the account of Canetti's young manhood, of his arrival in Vienna in the early 1920s, of his schooling, and of the beginning of his life as a writer.

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