Iris Murdoch called Auto da Fé "one of the few great novels of the century." Peter Kien is a reclusive Sinologist living in Germany between the wars. Canetti creates the elements in Kien, and in his personal relationships, that will lead to his destruction.

Auto Da Fe

Literature & Fiction

elias-canetti

Contemporary

Vintage

Philosophy. Memoirs documenting the evolution of Canetti's thought over a 30 yeear period. Superb.

The Human Province

Andre Deutsch Ltd.

Providing a portrait of the author's personal background and creative development, this book presents the events, personalities and intellectual forces which shaped the growth of this artist as a young man. It covers his up-bringing in Bulgaria and later homes in Manchester, Vienna and Zurich. He was born in 1905 and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981. This is the first volume of this three-volume autobiography by the author of "Auto de Fe".

Tongue Set Free

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

Secret Heart of the Clock

The Conscience of Words & Ear Witness

Picador/Pan Books

Tougue Set Free (Picador Books)

Pan Books

This is the third volume of Elias Canetti's autobiography, following "The Tongue Set Free" and "The Torch in My Ear". It is set in Vienna between 1931 and 1937, at a time when the European catastrophe was already clear to anyone with eyes to see. The book is both a portrait of its time and an intellectual and spiritual autobiography. Canetti describes his relationships with Herman Broch, Robert Musil, Fritz Wortruba, the composer Alban Berg, and Alma Mahler.

The Play of the Eyes (Picador Books)

Picador

Presents brief aphorisms selected from the German Nobel laureate's writings

The Agony of Flies: Notes and Notations (English and German Edition)

History & Criticism

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

Notes from Hampstead: The Writer's Notes: 1954-1971

Notes from Hampstead is a map to the late Nobel laureate's thinking, a triumphant compendium of aphoristic, enigmatic, and expository writings covering a characteristically diverse range of subjects: the significance of mythology and ethnicity, the nature of creativity, the extraordinary hold violence has on the twentieth century, literary history (one learns of Canetti's affection for Cervantes, Stendhal, and Gogol, and his adoration of Kafka), and, always, there is a fierce quarrel with death. Canetti draws on the troubled period following the death of his wife and the publication of his masterwork of social theory, Crowds and Power. An ambivalent interest in spiritualism also characterizes the collection: Canetti's conversations with Jesuits and Indian gurus, and his readings of Greek, Hebrew, and primitive myths give a kaleidoscopic view of the uses and abuses of religion.

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

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, unforgettable treatment of the modern predicament.

Auto-da-Fé

Literary

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