Elias Canetti - Life, Works, Trivia

Writer, born in Rustschuk, N Bulgaria. He was educated at schools in England, Austria, Switzerland, and Germany, and lived in England from 1938, though continued to write in German. His interest in crowd psychology produced two important works: the novel Die Blendung (1936, trans as both Auto da Fé and The Tower of Babel) and the study Masse und Macht (1960, Crowds and Power). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981.

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Elias Canetti (25 July 1905, Rousse, Bulgaria – 14 August 1994, Zurich) was a Bulgaria-born British-Austrian novelist, who wrote in German and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981.

Life

Elias Canetti was the eldest son in a Jewish merchant family in Rustchuk (present-day Rousse).

Canetti went back to Vienna in 1924 in order to study chemistry.

In 1981, Canetti won the Nobel Prize in Literature "for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power".

One of the best studies on Canetti's life and work was done by the French psychoanalyst Dr. Roger Gentis , "La folie Canetti", published by Maurice Nadau in Paris.

Works

Die Hochzeit (The Wedding, play, 1932) Komoedie der Eitelkeit 1934 (The Comedy of Vanity) Die Blendung 1935 (Auto-da-Fe, novel, tr.1946) Die Befristeten 1956 (? 1962, published in Hamburg) Aufzeichnungen 1942-48 1965 (Sketches) Die Stimmen von Marrakesch 1968 published by Hanser in Munich (The Voices of Marrakesh, travelogue, tr. Hitler nach Speer (Essay) Die Provinz des Menschen Aufzeichnungen 1942-1972 (The Human Province, tr. Essays (The Conscience of Words) Die Gerettete Zunge 1977 (The Tongue Set Free, memoir, tr. 1979) Die Fackel im Ohr 1980 Lebensgeschichte 1921-1931 (The Torch in My Ear, memoir, tr. 1982) Das Augenspiel 1985 Lebensgeschichte 1931-1937 (The Play of the Eyes, memoir, tr. 1990) Das Geheimherz der Uhr: Aufzeichnungen 1987 (The Secret Heart of the Clock, tr. 1989) Die Fliegenpein (The Agony of Flies, 1992) Nachträge aus Hampstead (Notes from Hampstead, 1994) Party im Blitz; Die englischen Jahre 2003 (Party in the Blitz, memoir, published posthumously, tr. 2005) Aufzeichnungen für Marie-Louise (written 1942, compiled and published posthumously, 2005)

Trivia

Canetti Peak on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named for Elias Canetti.