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Elias Canetti

Born

in Rousse, Bulgaria

July 25, 1905

Died

August 14, 1994

Genre

Fiction, Memoir, Nonfiction

Influences

Kafka, Stendhal, Robert Musil, Hermann Broch, Marie-Louise Von Motesic ...more

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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. Before World War II he moved with his wife Veza to England and stayed there for long time. Since late 1960s he lived in London and Zurich. In late 1980s he started to live in Zurich permanently. He died in 1994 in Zurich.

Author of Auto-da-Fé, Party in the Blitz, Crowds and Power, and The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit ...more

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Average rating: 3.97 · 17,417 ratings · 1,669 reviews · 108 distinct works • Similar authors

	Auto-da-Fé 4.02 avg rating — 6,335 ratings — published 1935 — 175 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Voices of Marrakesh by Elias Canetti, J.A. Underwood (Translator) 3.67 avg rating — 2,778 ratings — published 1968 — 124 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Die gerettete Zunge: Geschichte einer Jugend 4.15 avg rating — 2,058 ratings — published 1977 — 113 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crowds and Power 4.08 avg rating — 1,978 ratings — published 1960 — 120 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Torch in My Ear 4.12 avg rating — 702 ratings — published 1980 — 70 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kafka's Other Trial: The Letters to Felice 3.85 avg rating — 558 ratings — published 1969 — 52 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Memoirs of Elias Canetti: The Tongue Set Free/The Torch in My Ear/The Play of the Eyes 4.41 avg rating — 398 ratings — published 1990 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Das Augenspiel. Lebensgeschichte 1931-37 4.13 avg rating — 395 ratings — published 1985 — 72 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Earwitness: Fifty Characters by Elias Canetti, Joachim Neugroschel (Translator) 3.61 avg rating — 285 ratings — published 1974 — 48 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Conscience of Words by Elias Canetti, Joachim Neugroschel (Translator) 4.21 avg rating — 203 ratings — published 1974 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Memoir Trilogy (3 books)
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“Relearn astonishment.”
― Elias Canetti

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“All things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.”
― Elias Canetti

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“There are books, that one has for twenty years without reading them, that one always keeps at hand, that one takes along from city to city, from country to country, carefully packed, even when there is very little room, and perhaps one leafs through them while removing them from a trunk; yet one carefully refrains from reading even a complete sentence. Then after twenty years, there comes a moment when suddenly, as though under a high compulsion, one cannot help taking in such a book from beginning to end, at one sitting: it is like a revelation. Now one knows why one made such a fuss about it. It had to be with one for a long time; it had to travel; it had to occupy space; it had to be a burden; and now it has reached the goal of its voyage, now it reveals itself, now it illuminates the twenty bygone years it mutely lived with one. It could not say so much if it had not been there mutely the whole time, and what idiot would dare to assert that the same things had always been in it.”
― Elias Canetti, The Human Province

tags: books, literature, reading, words

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