Books by Elias Canetti (2)
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Auto-da-Fé by Elias Canetti EN
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Auto-da-Fé, Elias Canetti's only work of fiction, is a staggering achievement that puts him squarely in the ranks of major European writers such as Robert Musil and Hermann Broch. It is the story of Peter Kien, a scholarly recluse who lives among and for his great library. The destruction of Kien through the instrument of the illiterate, brutish housekeeper he marries constitutes the plot of the book. The best writers of our time have been concerned with the horror of the modern world--one thinks of Kafka, to whom Canetti has often been compared. But Auto-da-Fé stands as a completely original,... continue
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I Want to Keep Smashing Myself Until I Am Whole : An Elias Canetti Reader by Elias Canetti EN
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A career-spanning collection of writings by the Nobel laureate Elias Canetti, edited and introduced by Joshua Cohen He embarked on no adventures, he was in no war. He was never in prison, he never killed anyone. He neither won nor lost a fortune. All he ever did was live in this century. But that alone was enough to give his life dimension, both of feeling and of thought. Here, in his own words, is one of the twentieth century's foremost critics--a dizzyingly inventive, formally unplaceable, unstoppably peripatetic writer by the name of Elias Canetti, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literat... continue