tracked the path of the ideological aberrations of the century, and freed himself from them entirely. Throughout his life he retained the independence of his own judgement, and incapable of indifference, summoned the courage, to get himself onto that non-existing bridge that only opens up in front of those who step out over the abyss." The German writer Siegfried Lenz gave the speech highlighting Sperber's lifetime achievement. One of his closest friends was the novelist Constantine Fitzgibbon who translated much of his work into English. Personal life Manès Sperber is the father of Italian historian Vladimir Sperber and French anthropologist and cognitive scientist Dan Sperber. His first wife, Miriam Sperber, eventually emigrated to Champaign, Illinois, and became a counselor at the Psychological and Counseling Center there. His younger brother Milo was an English actor. Milo spent the last years of his life travelling around Britain reading from his brother's works. Death Manès Sperber died on 5 February 1984 in Paris. He was buried in the Montparnasse cemetery in Paris. In 1988, the city of Vienna dedicated a park in the Leopoldstadt quarter to Sperber. Prizes 1967 Remembrance Award from the World Federation of Bergen-Belsen Associations 1971 Literature Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts 1971 Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class 1973 Hanseatic Goethe Prize 1973 Honorary doctorate from the Sorbonne, in Paris 1974 Literary Prize of the City of Vienna 1975 Georg Büchner Prize 1977 Franz Nabl Prize 1977 Grand Austrian State Prize for Literature 1979 Prix Européen de l'essai 1979 Buber Rosenzweig Medal 1983 Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels 1983 Honorary Ring of Vienna Works Charlatan und seine Zeit (1924, ver. 2004) Alfred Adler (1926) Zur Analyse der Tyrannis (1939) Like a Tear in the Ocean: A Trilogy (3 volumes, reprinted by Holmes & Meier 1988) Volume 1 - Burned Bramble (1949) Volume 2 - The Abyss (1950) Volume 3 - Journey Without End (1955) The Wind and the Flame (Allan Wingate, 1951) trans. Constantine Fitzgibbon Die Achillesferse (1960) Zur täglichen Weltgeschichte (1967) Alfred Adler oder Das Elend der Psychologie (1970) Leben in dieser Zeit (1972) Wir und Dostojewski: eine Debatte mit Heinrich Böll u.a. geführt von Manès Sperber (1972) All Our Yesterdays (3 volumes) Volume 1 - God's Water Carriers (1974) Volume 2 - The Unheeded Warning: 1918-1933 (1975) Volume 3 - Until My Eyes Are Closed With Shards (1977) Individuum und Gemeinschaft