num_pages: 160
description: From one of the preeminent intellectual figures of the twentieth century, a highly personal testimonial of what Canetti himself chooses to term "notations," bits and notes, aphorisms, fragments. Taken together, they present an awesomely tender, guiltily gloomy meditation on death and aging." A mosaical portrait of an old body's mind determined to do its exercises and not lose a step--and fascinating for that." - Kirkus Reviews
language: English
title: The Secret Heart of the Clock: Notes, Aphorisms, Fragments, 1973-1985
titlecomplete: The Secret Heart of the Clock: Notes, Aphorisms, Fragments, 1973-1985
genres: Philosophy, Diary, German Literature, Nonfiction, Essays, Bulgaria
ratings_count: 116
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux