{"product_id":"9781590513668","title":"\"Dearest Georg\": Love, Literature, and Power in Dark Times: The Letters of Elias, Veza, and Georges Canetti, 1933-1948","description":"In 1934, Veza Taubner and Elias Canetti were married in Vienna. Elias describes  the arrangement to his brother Georges as a “functional” marriage. Meanwhile, an  intense intellectual love affair develops between Veza and Georges, a young doctor  suffering fromtuberculosis.  Four years later, Veza and Elias flee Nazi-ruled Vienna  to London, where they lead an impoverished and extremely complicated marital life  in exile.\u003cbr\u003e Spanning the major part of Elias’s struggle for literary recognition,  from 1933, before the publication of his novel, \u003ci\u003eAuto-da-Fé\u003c\/i\u003e, to 1959, when he finished  his monumental \u003ci\u003eCrowds and Power\u003c\/i\u003e, the Canetti letters provide an intimate look at  these formative years through the prism of a veritable love triangle: the newly married  Elias has a string of lovers; his wife, Veza, is hopelessly in love with an idealized  image of his youngest brother, Georges; and Georges is drawn to good looking men  as well as to his motherly sister-in-law. Independently and often secretly, the couple  communicates with Georges, who lives in Paris: Veza tells of Elias’s amorous escapades  and bouts of madness, Elias complains about Veza’s poor nerves and depression.  Each  of them worries about Georges’s health–if she could, Veza would kiss away the germs.  Georges is an infrequent correspondent, but he diligently stores away the letters  from his brother and sister-in-law.  In 2003, long after his death, they were accidentally  discovered in a Paris basement and comprise not only a moving and insightful document,  but real literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Other Press, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47133297049840,"sku":"9781590513668","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590513668_p0.jpg?v=1763806360","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590513668","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}