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Auto Da Fé

Elias Canetti

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1935
Originally in
Originally in German
Pages
Pages 470

A reclusive scholar who has built his life around his private library marries his grasping housekeeper on a whim, and as she and a string of swindlers strip him of his home and his mind, he ends by burning his books, and himself, alive.

The best definition of a home was a library.
Auto Da Fé, Elias Canetti

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