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The Netanyahus : An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family / Joshua Cohen. - London : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2023. - 239 stron ; 20 cm.

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Cohen Joshua (1980- ) Autor

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Literatura amerykańska

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Uniwersytety Rozmowa kwalifikacyjna Pracownicy naukowi i pracownice naukowe Żydzi Tożsamość narodowa Polityka Nowy Jork (Stany Zjednoczone ; stan)

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Powieść Literatura faktu, eseje, publicystyka Komedia

Winner of the 2022 Pilitzer Prize for Fiction

Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian - but not an historian of the Jews - is co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an exiled Israeli scholar specializing in the Spanish Inquisition.

When Benzion Netanyahu shows up for an interview, family unexpectedly in tow, Blum plays the reluctant host, to guests who proceed to lay waste to his American complacencies.

Mixing fiction with non-fiction, the campus novel with the lecture, The Netanyahus is a wildly inventive, genre-bending comedy of blending, identity, and politics - 'An Account of A Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Incident in the History of a Very Famous Family' that finds Joshua Cohen at the height of his powers.

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Exteriors / Annie Ernaux ; translated by Tanya Leslie. - London : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2022. - 74 strony ; 20 cm.

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Ernaux Annie (1940- ) Autor Leslie Tanya Tłumaczenie

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Literatura francuska

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Ernaux, Annie (1940-) Życie codzienne Pisarze francuscy Społeczeństwo Francja

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Pamiętniki i wspomnienia Esej

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Fitzcarraldo Editions

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

Taking the form of random journal entries over the course of seven years, "Exteriors" concentrates on the ephemeral encounters that take place just on the periphery of a person’s lived environment.

Ernaux captures the feeling of contemporary living on the outskirts of Paris...

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A new name : septology VI-VII / Jon Fosse ; translated by Damion Searls. - London : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2022. - 228 stron ; 20 cm.

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Fosse Jon (1959- ) Autor Searls Damion Tłumaczenie

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Literatura norweska

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Sobowtór Egzystencjalizm Trudne sytuacje życiowe Sens życia

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Fitzcarraldo Editions

Stanowi cześć 3. cyklu. Część 1. p.t.: The Other Name (Septology I-II), część 2. p.t.: I is Another (Septology III-V).

Shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize

Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway...There, in Bjørgvin, lives another Asle, also a painter but lonely and consumed by alcohol. Asle and Asle are doppelgängers – two versions of the same person, two versions of the same life, both grappling with existential questions.

...Written in melodious and hypnotic ‘slow prose’,...is a transcendent exploration of the human condition by Jon Fosse, and a radically other reading experience – incantatory, hypnotic, and utterly unique.

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The Birthday party / Laurent Mauvignier ; translated by Daniel Levin Becker. - London : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2020. - 499, [2] strony ; 20 cm.

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Mauvignier Laurent (1967- ) Autor Becker Daniel Levin Tłumaczenie

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Literatura francuska

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Artyści Urodziny Wsie Tajemnica Anonimy Groźba Francja

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Thriller Powieść psychologiczna

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Fitzcarraldo Editions

Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023

Told in rhythmic, propulsive prose that weaves seamlessly from one consciousness to the next over the course of a day, Laurent Mauvignier’s The Birthday Party is a deft unraveling of the stories we hide from others and from ourselves, a gripping tale of the violent irruptions of the past into the present, written by a major contemporary French writer.

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Still Born / Guadalupe Nettel ; translated by Rosalind Harvey. - London : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2020. - 219 stron ; 20 cm.

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Nettel Guadalupe (1973- ) Autor Harvey Rosalind Tłumaczenie

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Literatura meksykańska

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Kobieta Macierzyństwo Wybory życiowe Przyjaźń Podwiązanie jajowodów

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Longlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize

"Still Born" is a profound novel about motherhood, creativity, and the power of friendship and community to make caretaking easier from “one of the leading lights in contemporary Latin American literature”.

Alina and Laura are independent and career-driven women in their mid-thirties, neither of whom have built their future around the prospect of a family.

Laura is so determined not to become a mother that she has taken the drastic decision to have her tubes tied. But when she announces this to her friend, she learns that Alina has made the opposite decision and is preparing to have a child of her own...

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Drive your plow over the bones of the dead / Tokarczuk ; translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. - London : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2019. - 269, [1] strona ; 20 cm.

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Tokarczuk Olga (1962- ) Autor Lloyd-Jones Antonia (1962- ). Tłumaczenie

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Literatura polska

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Ludzie a zwierzęta Myśliwi Zabójstwo Kotlina Kłodzka

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Powieść Kryminał Thriller

2018 Man Booker Prize

"An astonishing amalgam of thriller, comedy and political treatise, written by a woman who combines an extraordinary intellect with an anarchic sensibility"

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Flights / Olga Tokarczuk ; translated by Jennifer Croft. - London : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2018. - 410, [12] stron ; 20 cm.

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Tokarczuk Olga (1962- ). Autor Croft Jennifer. Tłumaczenie

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Literatura polska

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Podróżnicy i podróżniczki Tożsamość osobista Ucieczki

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Nagroda Literacka Nike 2008.

Międzynarodowa Nagroda Bookera - Man Booker International Prize, 2018.

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False War / Carlos Manuel Álvarez. - [miejsce nieznane] : Fitzcarraldo Editions : Legimi, 2025.

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Álvarez Carlos Manuel. Autor

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The characters in False Warare ambivalent castaways living lives of deep estrangement from their home country, stranded in an existential no-man's land. Some of them want to leave and can't, others left and never quite finished getting anywhere. In this choral novel, employing a dazzling range of narrative styles from noir to autofiction, Carlos Manuel Álvarez brings together a series of interconnected stories of the perennially displaced. From Havana to Mexico City to Miami, from New York to Paris to Berlin, whether toiling in a barber shop, lost in the Louvre, competing in a chess hall in Cuba, plotting a theft, or on a trip for émigré dissidents, these characters learn that while they may appear to be on the move, in reality they are paralysed, living in permanent stasis. With a fractured narrative that brilliantly reflects the disintegration that comes with uprooting, full of tenderness, disenchantment and melancholy,False Waris an extraordinary novel that confirms Carlos Manuel Álvarez as one of the indispensable voices of his generation.

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The Son of Man / Jean-Baptiste Del Amo. - [miejsce nieznane] : Fitzcarraldo Editions : Legimi, 2024.

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Amo Jean-Baptiste Del. Autor

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After several years of absence, a man reappears in the life of a woman and their young son. Intent on being a family again, he drives them to Les Roches, a dilapidated house in the mountains, where the man grew up with his own ruthless father. While the mother watches the passing days with apprehension, the son discovers the enchantment of nature, savage and bewitching. As the father's hold over them intensifies, the return to their previous life and home seems increasingly impossible. Haunted by his past and consumed with jealousy, the man slowly sinks into madness and his son has no choice but to challenge his father in an attempt to save something of their humanity. Written in flawless, cinematic prose and brilliantly translated by Frank Wynne, The Son of Man is an exceptional novel of nature and wildness that traces how violence is inherited from one generation to the next, and a blistering examination of how families fold together and break apart under duress.

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To Lose a War / Jon Lee Anderson. - [miejsce nieznane] : Fitzcarraldo Editions : Legimi, 2026.

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Anderson Jon Lee. Autor

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Jon Lee Anderson first reported from Afghanistan in the late 1980s, covering the US-backed mujahideen's insurrection against the Soviet-backed regime in Kabul. Within days of the 9/11 attacks, he was again on the ground as an early eyewitness to the new war launched by the US against the Taliban and their Al Qaeda allies. At the time, the American military had prevailed on the battlefield, and the newfound peace seemed to offer a precious space for Afghan society to restore itself and to forge a democratic future. But all was not well: Osama bin Laden was still in hiding, the Taliban were stealthily reorganizing for a comeback, and the United States was about to turn its attention to Iraq. To Lose a War collects Anderson's writing from Afghanistan over a near-quarter-century span, offering a chronological account of a monumental tragedy as it unfolds. The colossal waste, missed signals, and wishful thinking that characterized the twenty-year arc of the US-led war in Afghanistan have consecrated it as one of the greatest foreign policy failures of the modern era, and a bellwether of a larger American imperial decline.

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Flower / Ed Atkins. - [miejsce nieznane] : Fitzcarraldo Editions : Legimi, 2025.

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Atkins Ed. Autor

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'I like eating cold, clammy wraps from big pharmacies that are open late and sell just a few foods like protein bars and powders.' Flower is a book of realistic admissions, likes, dislikes, memories and no-brainer observations, treating personal truth as unavailable – something that must be made up and convincing. Taking cues from confessional literature, his daughter's improvised games, poor internet writing and shitty AI, Ed Atkins, in his first work of non-fiction, equivocates between inanity and divinity, ease and pain, sentimentality and sterility. An anti-memoir, a list, a listless blur – Flower is a highly original, moving and absurd book by one of the most influential artists of his generation, formally inventive and disturbingly of our time.

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Cold Enough for Snow / Jessica Au. - [miejsce nieznane] : Fitzcarraldo Editions : Legimi, 2022.

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Au Jessica. Autor

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A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the autumn evenings, escape the typhoon rains, share meals in small cafes and restaurants, and visit galleries to see some of the city's most radical modern art. All the while, they talk: about the weather, horoscopes, clothes, and objects, about family, distance, and memory. But uncertainties abound. Who is really speaking here – is it only the daughter? And what is the real reason behind this elliptical, perhaps even spectral journey? At once a careful reckoning and an elegy, Cold Enough for Snow questions whether any of us speak a common language, which dimensions can contain love, and what claim we have to truly know another's inner world. Selected from more than 1,500 entries, Cold Enough for Snow won the Novel Prize, a new, biennial award offered by Fitzcarraldo Editions, New Directions (US) and Giramondo (Australia), for any novel written in English that explores and expands the possibilities of the form.

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What Am I, A Deer? / Polly Barton. - [miejsce nieznane] : Fitzcarraldo Editions : Legimi, 2026.

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Barton Polly. Autor

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What does it mean to lose yourself – and is that something you should be aiming for? A young woman with little interest in games takes up a job in Frankfurt at a famous gaming company, naively set on reinvention. On her morning commute, in the familiar clutches of tedium and self-loathing, she encounters a nice-eyed stranger who returns her forgotten umbrella and finds herself catapulted into a dizzying, year-long whirlwind of obsession – not just with this endlessly attractive spectre, but also with the feverish karaoke trips from which she draws the ultimate solace. With astonishing existential acuity, Polly Barton's formidable debut novel renders the paradoxes of modern life in all its complexity, in deliriously self-conscious prose that is at once propulsive, titillating and bitingly funny. Echoing with the sounds of Whitney Houston and The Cure, reaching for the sublime in dark, sweaty boxes, What Am I, A Deer? is an exhilarating exploration of authenticity, fantasy, romance and intoxication.

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Big Kiss, Bye-Bye / Claire-Louise Bennett. - [miejsce nieznane] : Fitzcarraldo Editions : Legimi, 2025.

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Bennett Claire-Louise. Autor

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The things that hold life in place have been lifted off and put away. Uprooted by circumstance from city to deep countryside, a woman lives in temporary limbo, visited by memories of all she's left behind. The most insistent are those of Xavier, who has always been certain he knows her better than anyone, better than she knows herself. Xavier, whom she still loves but no longer desires, a displacement he has been unable to accept. An unexpected letter from an old acquaintance brings back a torrent of others she's loved or wanted. Each has been a match and a mismatch, a liberation and a threat to her very sense of self. The ephemera left by their passage – a spilled coffee, an unwanted bouquet, a mind-blowing kiss – make up a cabinet of curiosity she inventories, trying to divine the essence of intimacy. What does it mean to connect with another person? What impels us to touch someone, to be touched by them, to stay in touch? How do we let them go? In yet another tour de force of fiction, Claire-Louise Bennett explores the mystery of how people come into and go out of our lives, leaving us forever in their grasp.

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Lili is Crying / Hélène Bessette. - [miejsce nieznane] : Fitzcarraldo Editions : Legimi, 2025.

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Bessette Hélène. Autor

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Lili is Crying, Hélène Bessette's debut novel, explores the fraughtness and depth of the troubling relationship between Lili and her mother Charlotte. With a near-mythic quality, Bessette's stripped-back prose evokes at once the pain of thwarted love – of desire run cold – and the promise of renewal. Lauded by critics on its initial publication in 1953 for its boundary-pushing style, unusual economy of expression, strange humour and sheer vivacity, Lili is Crying announces Bessette's singular take on the 'poetic novel'. This edition marks the very first translation of Bessette's work into English, by Windham-Campbell Prize-winning author and translator Kate Briggs.

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What Is Mine / José Henrique Bortoluci. - [miejsce nieznane] : Fitzcarraldo Editions : Legimi, 2024.

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Bortoluci José Henrique. Autor

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In What Is Mine, sociologist José Henrique Bortoluci uses interviews with his father, Didi, to retrace the recent history of Brazil and of his family. From the mid-1960s to the mid-2010s, Didi's work as a truck driver took him away from home for long stretches at a time as he crisscrossed the country and participated in huge infrastructure projects including the Trans-Amazonian Highway, a scheme spearheaded by the military dictatorship of the time, undertaken through brutal deforestation. An observer of history, Didi also recounts the toll his work has taken on his health, from a heart attack in middle age to the cancer that defines his retirement. Bortoluci weaves the history of a nation with that of a man, uncovering parallels between cancer and capitalism – both sustained by expansion, both embodiments of 'the gospel of growth at any cost' – and traces the distance that class has placed between him and his father. Influenced by authors such as Annie Ernaux and Svetlana Alexievich, What Is Mine is a moving, thought-provoking and brilliantly constructed examination of the scars we carry, as people and as countries.

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The Long Form / Kate Briggs. - [miejsce nieznane] : Fitzcarraldo Editions : Legimi, 2023.

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Briggs Kate. Autor

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It's early morning and there's a whole new day ahead. How will it unfold? The baby will feed, hopefully she'll sleep; Helen looks out of the window. The Long Form is the story of two people composing a day together. It is a day of movements and improvisations, common and uncommon rhythms, stopping and starting again. As the morning progresses, a book – The History of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding – gets delivered, and the scope of the day widens further. Matters of care-work share ground with matters of friendship, housing, translation, aesthetics and creativity. Small incidents of the day revive some of the oldest preoccupations of the novel: the force of social circumstance, the power of names, the meaning of duration and the work of love. With lightness and precision, Kate Briggs renews Henry Fielding's proposition for what a novel can be, combining fiction and essay to write an extraordinary domestic novel of far-reaching ideas.

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Intervals / Marianne Brooker. - [miejsce nieznane] : Fitzcarraldo Editions : Legimi, 2024.

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Brooker Marianne. Autor

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What makes a good death? A good daughter? In 2009, with her forties and a harsh wave of austerity on the horizon, Marianne Brooker's mother was diagnosed with primary progressive multiple sclerosis. She made a workshop of herself and her surroundings, combining creativity and activism in inventive ways. But over time, her ability to work, to move and to live without pain diminished drastically. Determined to die in her own home, on her own terms, she stopped eating and drinking in 2019. In Intervals, Brooker reckons with heartbreak, weaving her first and final memories with a study of doulas, living wills and the precarious economics of social, hospice and funeral care. Blending memoir, polemic and feminist philosophy, Brooker joins writers such as Anne Boyer, Maggie Nelson, Donald Winnicott and Lola Olufemi to raise essential questions about choice and interdependence and, ultimately, to imagine care otherwise.

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One Boat / Jonathan Buckley. - [miejsce nieznane] : Fitzcarraldo Editions : Legimi, 2025.

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Buckley Jonathan. Autor

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Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2025. On losing her father, Teresa returns to a small town on the Greek coast – the same place she visited when grieving her mother nine years ago. She immerses herself again in the life of the town, observing the inhabitants going about their business, a quiet backdrop for her reckoning with herself. An episode from her first visit resurfaces vividly – her encounter with John, a man struggling to come to terms with the violent death of his nephew. Soon Teresa encounters some of the people she met last time around: Petros, an eccentric mechanic, whose life story may or may not be part of John's; the beautiful Niko, a diving instructor; and Xanthe, a waitress in one of the cafés on the leafy town square. They talk about their longings, regrets, the passing of time, their sense of who they are. Artfully constructed, absorbing and insightful, One Boat is a brilliant novel grappling with questions of identity, free will, guilt and responsibility.

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Crowds and Power / Elias Canetti. - [miejsce nieznane] : Fitzcarraldo Editions : Legimi, 2026.

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Canetti Elias. Autor

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What is power, and what is the crowd? How do the two relate to each other? Crowds and Power is a striking and unclassifiable study of how human beings behave in groups and how collective forces shape history. Rejecting conventional sociology, 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Elias Canetti creates a unique framework that draws on anthropology, mythology, psychology, history, psychoanalysis and literature to explain why crowds form, how they act and what makes them so powerful. Drawing on his experiences in Vienna in the 1930s and a range of material spanning centuries and every continent, Canetti offers insights into the psychology of the crowd, the variety of religious experience, the paranoia of rulers and the pathology of power. A visionary and provocative book, Crowds and Power is a major work illuminating the forces driving mass movements and offers one of the most profound and startling portraits of the human condition ever written.

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