The Tongue Set Free: Remembrance of a European Childhood

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`The Tongue Set Free is so beautifully written. It begins wtih an extraordinary image, Canetti`s earliest memory. He comes out of a room. A man makes him stick out his tongue; if he talks he will cut it off. Years later Canetti realises that this was his nursemaid`s lover, frightening him into silence about their rendezvous. The idea of speaking as the entry into forbidden grown-up life dominates this book. When he is seven his father dies. He is propelled from childhood into adulthood, from his

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