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	Elias Canetti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Elias Canetti (25 July 1905, Ruse, Bulgaria – 13 August 1994, Zurich) was a Bulgaria-born British-Austrian novelist, who wrote in German and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981.
		By this time Canetti already spoke Ladino, Bulgarian, English and some French (he studied the latter two in the one year in England).
		Canetti went back in Vienna in 1924 in order to study chemistry.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elias_Canetti (496 words)

	Boston Globe Online / Table of Contents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Canetti, a Bulgarian-born British citizen who wrote in German, was buried Wednesday in Zurich beside Irish author James Joyce.
		Canetti began writing dramas and novels in the early 1930s, but developed a wide following among German readers only in 1960 with the publication of the first volume of his major work, "Masse und Macht" (Crowds and Power).
		Canetti, of Spanish-Jewish descent, left Austria in 1938 and went to Paris and then London, where he worked as free-lance writer and was granted a British passport.
	www.boston.com /globe/search/stories/nobel/1994/1994q.html (199 words)

	Nextbook: The Odd-Bod
		Canetti is a quirky individualist, close in some ways to Walter Benjamin, but where Benjamin's truant Marxism has long made him a darling of the academic left, Canetti's long volumes of memoir and short collections of aphorisms have not had a prolonged impact in literary-academic circles.
		Canetti and his wife had an open marriage, at least on his side, but you wouldn't know it from Party in the Blitz; with the exception of Iris Murdoch, his lovers, like the novelist Friedl Benedikt and the painter Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, are presented with the same taxonomical distance as the other limned personalities.
		Canetti's concern is less with personal relationships, or indeed with the daily tribulations of his own life—he and Veza were frequently on the edge of poverty—than with producing a kind of anthropology of his time and place.
	www.nextbook.org /cultural/feature.html?id=196 (1391 words)

	Elias Canetti (1905-1994) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Elias Canetti was born in Ruse, a small port in Bulgaria on the river Danube, into a Sephardic Jewish family.
		Canetti graduated in 1929 with a Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of Vienna.
		Canetti sees that writers are responsible of the preservation, revivification, and invention of the life-sustaining myths and their meaning.
	www.ukprofind.com /canetti (1255 words)

	Seminar
		Canetti’s preoccupation with crowds and power must be understood in the context of the First World War and the ensuing catastrophes, fascism, the Shoah, and the Second World War.
		Canetti’s many literary, philosophical, and personal relationships are indicative of a contradictory personality, a master of transformation as well as a victim of the instability around him.
		Elias Canetti also explores the dry spells the author experienced to the point of contemplating giving up writing because of mental paralyses often caused by his companions’ as well as his own despondency.
	www.humanities.ualberta.ca /seminar/display.cfm?ReviewID=158 (1260 words)

	Elias Canetti
		Elias Canetti was born on July 25, 1905, in Rustschuck, then a part of the Turkish Empire (now Ruse, Bulgaria).
		Canetti chose to be a German writer because of his appreciation for the culture and history.
		Elias Canetti died on August 13, 1994, at the age of 89 in Zurich.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/canetti.html (1259 words)

	Seminar
		Canetti's concept of the acoustic mask (the specific speech pattern of every individual) is elaborated upon in light of Karl Kraus's linguistic influence in Manfred Durzak's interview of the author.
		Peter Lämmle's essay convincingly differentiates between Canetti's acoustic mask and Karl Kraus's satirical "acoustic quotation" (113), relating the lack of moral intent in the former to the influence of Büchner.
		Hansjakob Werlen criticizes Canetti's use of ethnography as "an instrumentalization of other cultures through their translation into Canetti theorems" (183), yet still sees in the figure of the ruler ("Machthaber") a successful means of "unmasking" power.
	www.humanities.ualberta.ca /seminar/display.cfm?ReviewID=43 (678 words)

	The End of Modernism: Elias Canetti's Auto-da-Fé, by Earl J. Hess. Preface.
		Readers familiar with Canetti's engaging autobiography, the evocative North African travel memoir, or his far-flung anthropological study are typically struck by the breadth of the author's interests, the variety of his experience, and the quality of his erudition.
		Though Canetti's novel belonged to world literature long before it was reclaimed by German readers in the early 1960s, scholarship has tended to favor the German readership.
		On the contrary, Canetti steadfastly maintained that it is possible to be a serious intellectual generalist without necessarily devolving into a dilettante.
	www.ibiblio.org /uncpress/chapters/donahue_end.html (1274 words)

	Waggish: Elias Canetti and Hermann Broch in Conversation
		Waggish: Elias Canetti and Hermann Broch in Conversation
		Canetti resorts to folk legends and indigenous histories, but he lacks the ability to discriminate between, say, a matrimonial link, a blood link, and a legal link.
		Canetti is more skilled at it than any of Colin Wilson's children, and the backwards-focused Broch may have been more scared than most by what Canetti represented, but damned if Broch's accusation, even when tweaked by Canetti, doesn't ring true.
	www.waggish.org /2003/02/elias_canetti_and_hermann_broch_in_conversation.html (1290 words)

	Boston Globe Online / Table of Contents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The second volume of Elias Canetti's odd yet oddly compelling memoirs distills the moral force of high Central European culture of which he is a noble example.
		Finally, the title carries overtones of July 15, 1927, the burning of the Palais of Justice witnessed by Canetti, influencing his study of crowd behavior and presaging the destructive historical fires that leap through the pages of "Auto-da-Fe," destined to consume Europe.
		The outstanding characters, though, are Canetti's possessive mother, a bluestocking of immense literary learning and patrician Sephardic Jewish lineage, reduced to genteel penury; and Veza, an alluring woman of culture, who has constructed a haven of art and beauty in one of the rooms of the apartment where she lives with her senile, sinister father.
	www.boston.com /globe/search/stories/nobel/1982/1982v.html (471 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Elias Canetti
		Elias Canetti was born in Rustschuk, Bulgaria, on 25 July 1905, the oldest of the three sons of the Sephardic merchant Jacques Canetti and his wife, Mathilde, née Arditti, who descended from an established Bulgarian Sephardic family.
		Canetti spent his childhood, described in Die gerettete Zunge [The Tongue Set Free, 1977], as a pampered child in the patriarchal home of his paternal grandparents, where Ladino was spoken, and Jewish laws and holidays were observed.
		In his autobiography he recalls his mother’s categorical rejection of the insults - Mathilde Canetti was convinced that her son, a Sephardic Jew, was not the intended target, and she transmitted her sense of pride to her son.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=725 (704 words)

	Monster's Ball
		Canetti was a scrupulous craftsman, and Jeremy Adler's somewhat uneasy observation, in an afterword to the book, that "Canetti would no doubt have wanted to give the work a more polished form" is surely a large understatement.
		Canetti, who won the Nobel Prize in 1981, began to assemble Party im Blitz: Die englischen Jahre from his notes and diaries in 1990, when he was 85 and living in Zurich, where he had moved from London ten years earlier.
		Elias Canetti was born in 1905 in the town of Ruschuk on the lower Danube.
	www.thenation.com /doc/20051205/banville (1058 words)

	Litrix-German Literature Online > BOOKS > Non-fiction > chronological > Elias Canetti > Book description
		Besides Canetti’s works in print, it is primarily the huge, largely unpublished body of posthumous works — the hidden side of his relatively well-known publication history — which Hanuschek uses in his portrayal.
		These metamorphoses of Canetti the writer, born to a family of Sephardic Jews in Rustschuk, Bulgaria, provide the pattern for Hanuschek’s study; thus he does not adhere strictly to the outlines set in Canetti’s autobiography.
		With the exposition of the opposing views and differing perspectives of Canetti’s friends and acquaintances, we are given a picture of the writer’s life no less precise and perceptive than the sharp-witted and sharp-tongued portraits by the “ferocious” Canetti himself, though Hanuschek abstains from the merciless treatment often practiced by his subject.
	www.litrix.de /buecher/sachbuecher/jahr/2005/canetti/enindex.htm (848 words)

	Canetti tussles with Britain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Elias Canetti was 34 years old when, in 1939, he arrived in England, "a lost emigrant" from a newly inhospitable mainland Europe.
		(Canetti was born in Bulgaria, had lived in Vienna, wrote in German and was a Jew.) He'd already published the novel "Auto da Fe," a celebrated success in Germany; his magnum opus, "Crowds and Power," was still ahead of him, as was the Nobel Prize he was to win in 1981.
		Canetti had come to England once before, as a boy brought by his father, and he had watched that father die in front of him.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/10/02/RVG2PES5QE1.DTL&feed=rss.books (509 words)

	Michael Dirda
		Born in Bulgaria in 1905, Elias Canetti -- best known for his gloomy novel Auto-da-Fé and his socio-philosophical study Crowds and Power -- seems to have known nearly all the most interesting Austrian and British literary figures of his time.
		Canetti himself likens his sketches to those in John Aubrey's Brief Lives, that irresistible grab-bag of more than 200 brief memoranda of 17th-century notables.
		It's undeniably fascinating, and there is doubtless some truth to Canetti's portrait (that "passionate schoolgirl" is just right), but even those who like gossip as much as I do will find the tenor of his comments not only ungentlemanly but downright cruel and vindictive.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/29/AR2005092901780_pf.html (963 words)

	Party in the Blitz - Elias Canetti
		It is an odd piece of luck that Canetti did not have the chance to work over the manuscript and adjust his own portrait in it as he did in the lofty chronicles of his days in Germany.
		Canetti wrote these recollections in the early 1990s, and they have now posthumously been edited together (by Kristian Wachinger) in a book that is obviously unfinished, but still of considerable interest.
		Elias Canetti (1905-1994) was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1981.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/divbiog/canettie.htm (1875 words)

	Granta: Elias Canetti
		Elias Canetti, winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Literature, was one of the major intellectual figures and polymaths of the twentieth century.
		Canetti's genius is, however, perhaps nowhere more evident than in the three volumes of his autobiography, now reissued as Granta paperbacks.
		Canetti provides an astonishing account of the Vienna and Berlin of the 1920s.
	www.granta.com /authors/61 (153 words)

	Death, Survival and the Radiance of Invulnerability - by Alan Jacobs
		Most of us suppress these feelings for they are, as Canetti says, "so dreadful and so naked that they are concealed in every way." And he claims the situation of survival as the central situation of power.
		Canetti refers to the studies of anthropologist E. Handy, who describes a Marquesas tribal belief in Mana, the universal life force similar what George Lucas called "The Force".
		Thanks to Canetti, I understand where in me this comes from and that it is a human reaction.
	www.ideajournal.com /articles.php?id=1 (3176 words)

	Amazon.com: The Memoirs of Elias Canetti : The Tongue Set Free, The Torch in My Ear, The Play of the Eyes: Books: Elias ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Canetti was one of the leading writers and intellectuals of the 20th century, and he brings all his formidable talent and insight to this work.
		Canetti was an excellent writer, clear and lucid without being bland, with a wonderful ability to see and present the fundamental elements of individuals.
		Canetti came of age during and after WWI, and spent much of his early adulthood in the intellectual turmoil of interwar Vienna.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0374527148?v=glance (1961 words)

	Party in the Blitz \| The English Years \| Elias Canetti \| WWII Emigres
		Canetti, no slouch in the story-tell department himself, admits to feeling "lame and excluded" in the midst of all of Russell's story-telling:
		Those Canetti hates, he hates unconditionally; those he loves, he loves unconditionally.
		Finally, we know that this is the last thing that Canetti wrote, and he was eighty-five years old, and many of the characters he was writing about were dead (or mad: Murdoch died of Alzheimer's, recently documented by her late husband.) That gave him the freedom to write as he wished, with no restraint.
	www.ralphmag.org /DT/canetti-review.html (1120 words)

	Amazon.com: Auto-da-Fe: Books: Elias Canetti,D. V. Wedgewood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Written in 1931 when Canetti was twenty-six it is the story of the booklover and Sinologist Peter Kien who lives alone with his twenty- five thousand volumes until he is deceived and marries his housekeeper the sixty year old Theresa who he mistakenly believes will preserve his library when gone.
		Canetti in a small subsequent work wrote of Kafka, and one can see the same strange quality of human detachment in both writers.
		Canetti in pillorying an exclusive reliance on intellectual brilliance, it seems to me, is describing first and above all himself.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0374518793?v=glance (1790 words)

	The Memoirs of Elias Canetti: The Tongue Set Free, the Torch in My Ear, the Play of the Eyes... price comparison at MSN ...
		The Memoirs of Elias Canetti: The Tongue Set Free, the Torch in My Ear, the Play of the Eyes...
		A compelling account of the development of a great artist, and a portrait of the tragic character of an entire era The uncompromising achievement of Elias Canetti has been matched by few writers this century.
		Canetti worked brilliantly in many forms, but the three volumes that comprise his autobiography are where his genius is perhaps most evident.
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	TomFolio.com: by Elias Canetti
		Canetti, Elias The voices of Marrakesh a record of a visit Publisher: 103 p.
		Canetti, Elias; J. Underwood (trans) The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit Publisher: 103p.Farrar Straus & Giroux May, 1984.
		Canetti, Elias; Joel Agee (trans) The Secret Heart of The Clock: Notes, Aphorisms, Fragments 1973-1985 Publisher: 151p.Andre Deutsch 1991.
	www.tomfolio.com /SearchAuthorTitle.asp?Aut=Elias_Canetti (492 words)

	Grace Doherty Library - New Books November 16, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Canetti, Elias, 1905- Die Stimmen von Marrakesch : Aufzeichnungen nach einer Reise ; Das Gewissen der Worte : essays / Elias Canetti.
		Canetti, Elias, 1905- Hochzeit : Kom{232}odie der Eitelkeit ; Die Befristeten : Dramen ; Der Ohrenzeuge : funfzig Charaktere / Elias Canetti.
		Canetti, Elias, 1905- Aufsatze ; Reden ; Gesprache / Elias Canetti.
	www.centre.edu /web/library/book_lists/nov16.html (1380 words)

	AllRefer.com - Elias Canetti (German Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Elias Canetti (German Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Elias Canetti[kunet´E] Pronunciation Key, 1905–94, English novelist and essayist, b.
		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.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/Canetti.html (249 words)

	Elias Canetti Winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature
		Elias Canetti Winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature
		Elias Canetti - Curriculum Vitae (submitted by Pears)
		THE INNER LIFE OF ELIAS CANETTI (submitted by Anonymous)
	www.almaz.com /nobel/literature/1981a.html (100 words)

	The Memoirs of Elias Canetti: The Tongue Set Free, the Torch in My Ear, the Play of the Eyes:Canetti, ...
		The Memoirs of Elias Canetti: The Tongue Set Free, the Torch...
		The uncompromising achievement of Elias Canetti has been matched by few writers this century.
		The first volume, The Tongue Set Free, presents the events, personalities, and intellectual forces that fed Canetti's early creative development.
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?ISBN=0374527148 (250 words)

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