CANETTI, ELIAS

kənĕtˈē, 1905–94, English novelist and essayist, b. Ruschuk (now Ruse), Bulgaria. He came from a Sephardic Jewish background, spent most of his early years in Vienna, and, fleeing Nazism, emigrated to England before the outbreak of World War II. His most important works, all written in German, are the novel Auto-da-Fé (1935, tr. 1946), a searing picture of a man as degraded and evil, and Crowds and Power (1960, tr. 1962), a study of mass psychology. He also wrote plays, autobiographical works, essays, and a study of Kafka. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981.

See his reminiscences: The Tongue Set Free (1977, tr. 1979), The Torch in My Ear (1980, tr. 1982), and The Play of the Eyes (1985, tr. 1986); his notebooks (1998); study by R. Lawson (1991).

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The End of Modernism: Elias Canetti's Auto-Da-Fae
Book by William Collins Donahue; University of North Carolina Press, 2001
Subjects: Canetti, Elias--1905---Blendung--English
...uber System und Systemkritik bei Elias Canetti." Etudes germaniques 39 (1984...Munich: Delp Verlag, 1974. . "Elias Canetti." In European Writers: The...von Autobiographie und Roman bei Elias Canetti." In Ist Wahrheit ein Meer von...
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Death and Philosophy
Book by Jeff Malpas, Robert C. Solomon; Routledge, 1998
...Hopgood, New York, Knopf, 1995. Canetti, Elias, The Agony of Flies: Notes...Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1994. Canetti, Elias, Crowds and Power , trans...Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1984. Canetti, Elias, The Human Province , trans...
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Keepers of the Motherland: German Texts by Jewish Women Writers
Book by Dagmar C. G. Lorenz; University of Nebraska Press, 1997
Subjects: German Literature--Jewish Authors--History And Criticism, German Literature--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Influence, Jewish Women--Germany--Intellectual Life, Jews--Germany--Intellectual Life
...Chassidischen Bucher . Berlin: Schocken. Canetti, Elias. 1993. Aufzeichnungen, 1942...Canetti, Die Gelbe Strasse , ed. Elias Canetti. Munich: Hanser. . 1985. Das...1990. Die gelbe Strasse . Ed. Elias Canetti. Munich: Hanser. Carlebach...
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Culture and Inflation in Weimar Germany
Book by Bernd Widdig; University of California Press, 2001
Subjects: Antisemitism--Germany--History--20th Century, German Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, Germany--Civilization--20th Century, Germany--Economic Policy--1918-1933, Germany--History--1918-1933, Germany--Social Conditions--1918-1933, Inflation (Finance)--Germany--History, Money In Literature
...Berlin: Colloqium Verlag, 1978. Canetti, Elias. Auto-da-Fe. Trans. C...Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1984. Canetti, Elias. Crowds and Power. Trans...Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1984. Canetti, Elias. Das Gewissen der Worte: Essays...
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Orientpolitik, Value and Civilization: Methodology and History in Anthropology
Book by Jeremy Adler; Berghahn Books, 1999
...Letter to H.G.A. 20 June . Canetti, Elias 26 Letters to F.B.S . 18 February 1939-5 July 1952. Canetti, Veza 23 Letters to F.B.S...B.S.s Letters to Veza and Elias Canetti, Private Collection, Zurich...
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A Companion to the Works of Elias Canetti
Journal article by David Roberts; The Modern Language Review, Vol. 101, 2006
Subjects: A Companion to the Works of Elias Canetti (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews
A Companion to the Works of Elias Canetti. by David Roberts A Companion to the Works of Elias Canetti. Ed. by DAGMAR C. G. LORENZ...sterling. ISBN 1-57113-234-1. Elias Canetti once observed that he had been...
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"Memory Believes before Knowing Remembers": Faulkner, Canetti, and Survival
Journal article by Jeffrey J. Folks; Papers on Language & Literature, Vol. 39, 2003
Subjects: Canetti, Elias, Faulkner, William, Fear--Analysis, Hightower, Gail, Memory--Analysis
...Faulkners major contemporaries, Elias Canetti. Although there is no evidence...tendencies of human society. Elias Canetti, born just eight years after...Steiner, Michel Foucault, and Elias Canetti, as different as these writers...
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De(Ar)ranged Minds, Mindless Acts and Polemical Portrayal in Kleist and Canetti
Journal article by Gunther Martens; Style, Vol. 43, 2009
Subjects: Bender, Debates, Linguistics, Syntax
...Portrayal in Kleist and Canetti by Gunther Martens Introduction...Heinrich von Kleist and Elias Canetti. Both authors share...example, I now consider Elias Canettis novel Die Blendung...narrators discourse. While Canetti s narrator employs the...
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Elias Canetti's Counter-Image of Society: Crowds, Power, Transformation
Journal article by Julian Preece; The Modern Language Review, Vol. 101, 2006
Subjects: 'Die Freiheit in der Zeit ist die Uberwindung des Todes': Uberleben in der Welt und im unsterblichen Werk. Eine Annaherung an Elias Canetti (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews, Elias Canetti's Counter-Image of Society: Crowds, Power, Transformation (Book)--Book reviews
...unsterblichen Werk. Eine Annaherung an Elias Canetti. By STEFANIE WIEPRECHT-ROTH...in 1994, academic interest in Elias Canetti has if anything intensified...more recently demonstrated too (Elias Canetti: Eine Biographie (Munich: Hanser...
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German Minority Literature: Tongues Set Free & Pointed Tongues
Journal article by Marilya Veteto-Conrad; International Fiction Review, 2001
Subjects: Canetti, Elias--Criticism, interpretation, etc., German literature--Authorship, Kumar, Anant--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Minority authors--Germany
...by Marilya Veteto-Conrad When Elias Canetti--polyglot, author, Spanish...minority literature. Bringing Canetti and minority literature together...rhyme of the original. (13) Elias Canetti, Die gerettete Zunge (Munchen...
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magazine articles on: Canetti Elias  - 44 results

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Alone in a Crowd: Canetti and the Mystery of Human Behaviour
Magazine article by John Gray; New Statesman (1996), Vol. 140, August 15, 2011
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Play of the Eyes (Autobiography)--Book reviews
Alone in a Crowd: Canetti and the Mystery of Human Behaviour. by John Gray The Play of the Eyes Elias Canetti, translated by Ralph Manheim Granta...pounds sterling 9.99 As a child, Elias Canetti treasured Robinson Crusoe. The author...
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Learn from the Mob Professor
Magazine article by Will Self; New Statesman (1996), Vol. 140, February 21, 2011
Subjects: Authors--Criticism and interpretation, Authors--Influence, Canetti, Elias--Criticism and interpretation, Canetti, Elias--Influence, Crowds--Analysis, Crowds--Control, Crowds--Political aspects, Writers--Criticism and interpretation, Writers--Influence
...the crowd was the Nobel laureate Elias Canetti, whose 1960 magnum opus, Crowds...did for "primitive" ritual. To Canetti, both socialism and capitalism...society as a crowd, at root, directs Canetti to his definition of power as the...
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A Poetry of Inconvenient Knowledge
Magazine article by Alice Fulton; The Nation, Vol. 268, June 14, 1999
Subjects: Poetry--Analysis
...engendered by debates on form. Elias Canetti notes that "survival is at the...translated by Joachim Neugroschel) Canetti adds that "this is a cruel and...Elsewhere in the same piece, Canetti says, "The writer who is able...
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Orpheus Dissembling
Magazine article by John Simon; New Criterion, Vol. 24, June 2006
Subjects: Hofmannsthal, Hugo von--Works, Poets--Works
...not everyone was a Hofmannsthal idolator. He quotes Elias Canetti: "Hofmannsthal, who never meant anything to me...himself. His departure, too, was silent." On which Elias Canetti commented, "If only the coldheartedness and indifference...
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Iris Murdoch: A Memoir
Magazine article by Jeffrey Meyers; New Criterion, Vol. 18, November 1999
Subjects: Murdoch, Iris--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women novelists--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...with Eduard Fraenkel, Arnaldo Momigliano, and Elias Canetti--was one of her older European gurus. "I gave no...Wittgenstein, the only other genius Iris had known was Elias Canetti. He was a good man who could have used his intellectual...
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newspaper articles on: Canetti Elias  - 6 results

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'Iris Undressed without Me Laying a Finger on Her'; in an Autobiography Published 11 Years after His Death, Nobel Prize-Winner Elias Canetti Unleashes a Venomous Attack on His Former Lover, Iris Murdoch
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), July 25, 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Canetti, Elias, Murdoch, Iris
...His Death, Nobel Prize-Winner Elias Canetti Unleashes a Venomous Attack on...Prize for Literature in 1981, Elias Canetti banned his works from being published...bile. .Party in the Blitz, by Elias Canetti, is published by The Harvill...
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Books: Journey of the Intellect; the Tongue Set Free the Torch in My Ear. the Play of the Eyes. by Elias Canetti
Newspaper article by Monica Foot; The Birmingham Post (England), April 22, 2000
...Books: Journey of the Intellect; the Tongue Set Free the Torch in My Ear. the Play of the Eyes. by Elias Canetti. by Monica Foot Elias Canetti, Nobel Prize winner, is best known for his novel Auto-da-fe and for studying the psychology of...
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A Stranger at Home
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), November 19, 2005
Subjects: Motion picture industry, Movie industry
...words. People, she insists, are more important than literature. The dead, though, are not spared. She labels Elias Canetti, the Bulgarian-born novelist and Nobel Prizewinner, a scrounger whom she hated. His only talent was for self...
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Truth about a Liar; Critic's Choice
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 11, 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Rubens, Bernice
...and was a valued friend to many. But to those who were not intimates she could be acerbic, even fierce. The late Elias Canetti, who won the Nobel prize, meddled in her marriage and earned her hatred. She saw him crossing the road once, deep...
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HOPE AND GLORY; Diana Athill's Memoirs Are an Astonishing Work Of
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), December 13, 2009
Subjects: Athill, Diana--Criticism and interpretation
...Athill. She is refreshingly happy to blast those she dislikes, however revered they may be. Of the Nobel Prize winner Elias Canetti she says what pompous self-importance! and she deplores what she calls the junkety smugness of the artist Eric Gill...
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encyclopedia articles on: Canetti Elias  - 3 results

 
 
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Canetti, Elias
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CANETTI, ELIAS k net e, 1905 94, English novelist and essayist, b. Ruschuk (now Ruse), Bulgaria. He came from a Sephardic Jewish background...
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Nobel Prizes
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Siegbahn Roger W. Sperry David H. Hubel Torsten N. Wiesel Elias Canetti 1982 Alfonso Garcia Robles Alva Myrdal Aaron Klug Kenneth...Varmus Camilo Jose Cela 1990 Mikhail S. Gorbachev Elias James Corey Richard E. Taylor Jerome I. Friedman Henry...
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Ruse
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Roman naval station. Under Turkish rule (15th 19th cent.) Ruse, known as Ruschuk, served as a military base. Elias Canetti was born there. The city has a polytechnic institute and is noted for its old churches and mosques...


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