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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.
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 .
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
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).
Aug 14, 1994 · Author of Auto-da-Fé, Party in the Blitz, Crowds and Power, and The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit. Awarded the 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature "for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power." He studied in Vienna.
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.
Aug 19, 1994 · Elias Canetti, a novelist, playwright and cultural historian who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981, died on Saturday in Zurich. He was 89 and had homes in London and...
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.
