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Elias Canetti (Bulgarian: Елиас Канети; 25 July 1905 – 14 August 1994; ⫽ k ə ˈ n ɛ t i, k ɑː-⫽; German pronunciation: [eˈliːas kaˈnɛti]) was a German-language writer, born in Ruse, Bulgaria to a Sephardic Jewish family.
Elias Canetti (born July 25, 1905, Ruse, Bulg.—died Aug. 14, 1994, Zürich, Switz.) was a German-language novelist and playwright whose works explore the emotions of crowds, the psychopathology of power, and the position of the individual at odds with the society around him.
Oct 5, 2022 · Elias Canetti on Being a Writer in a Tumultuous and Troubling World “The poet is nothing if he does not ceaselessly apply myth to the world around him.” Via Picador
Apr 26, 2024 · Read an excerpt from The Book Against Death on the Paris Review Daily here . Quixotic is a word that comes to mind when thinking of Elias Canetti, not just because Cervantes’s novel was his favorite novel but because Canetti, too, was a man from La Mancha.
Elias Canetti. From Nobel Lectures, Literature 1981-1990, Editor-in-Charge Tore Frängsmyr, Editor Sture Allén, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1993. This autobiography/biography was written at the time of the award and first published in the book series Les Prix Nobel .
Aug 14, 1994 · Elias Canetti’s literary body of work includes a novel, three plays, a study of mass movements, some author profiles and his memoirs. The novel Die Blendung (1935) (The Deception) was originally conceived as a series of novels inspired by The Human Comedy series by Honoré de Balzac, the French 19th-century author.
May 14, 2018 · In 1981, Bulgarian-born author Elias Canetti received the Nobel Prize for Literature for his body of work that crossed many disciplines and contained insights and analyses of crowd dynamics and obsessive behaviors. His best-known books are Auto-da-fé (1935–1936) and Crowds and Power (1960).
