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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 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. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981. Canetti was descended from Spanish.
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
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.
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Mar 7, 2024 · Canetti called her a co-dependent terror who would often berate him for being lazy and inept — “You’re no artist.” This was a young woman with a terminal illness, angry at the...
Jul 6, 2019 · Elias Canetti was born in a small town in Bulgaria called, at that time, Ruschuk, now known as Ruse. The Canettis were Sephardic Jews: their ancestors had migrated to Spain after the Diaspora and had been forced to leave the country again at the end of the fifteenth century.
Fräulein Mima couldn’t forgive herself for being away, for an hour I heard them sing Grandfather’s praises. He had even figured out the size of the grounds correctly, a true sorcerer. “The Appearance of the Sorcerer” by Elias Canetti from The Tongue Set Free. Published in The Memoirs of Elias Canetti.
Oct 5, 2022 · Elias Canetti was born in 1905 into a Sephardi Jewish family in Ruse, Bulgaria. He moved to Vienna in 1924, where he became involved in literary circles while studying for a degree in chemistry. He remained in Vienna until the Anschluss, when he emigrated to England and later to Switzerland, where he died in 1994.
