Auto-da-Fé, Elias Canetti's only work of fiction, is a staggering achievement that puts him squarely in the ranks of major European writers such as Robert Musil and Hermann Broch. It is the story of Peter Kien, a scholarly recluse who lives among and for his great library. The destruction of Kien through the instrument of the illiterate, brutish housekeeper he marries constitutes the plot of the book. The best writers of our time have been concerned with the horror of the modern world--one thinks of Kafka, to whom Canetti has often been compared. But
Auto-de-Fé stands as a completely original, unforgettable treatment of the modern predicament.
Auto da Fé (original title Die Blendung, "The Blinding") is a 1935 novel by Elias Canetti; the title of the English translation (by C. V. Wedgwood, 1946) refers to the burning of heretics by the Inquisition.
Auto da Fé (original title Die Blendung, "The Blinding") is a 1935 novel by Elias Canetti; the title of the English translation (by C. The book manuscript was finished in 1931, and the book was published in 1935, by Herbert Reichner in Vienna (Canetti's hometown at that time). It is Canetti's first publication.
Translation of Die Blendung. First American ed. published under title: The Tower of Babel. Father takes my books away. I'd like to go to a Chinese school. They have forty thousand letters in their alphabet. You couldn't get them all into one book. That's only what you think.
Elias Canetti is one of those strange writers that are hard to grasp, and get more complex with each book I read.
Auto-da-Fé, Elias Canetti's only work of fiction, is a staggering achievement that puts him squarely in the ranks of major European writers such as Robert Musil and Hermann Broch. It is the story of Peter Kien.
Auto-da-Fé" is the story of Peter Kien, a distinguished, reclusive sinologist living in Germany between the wars. With masterly precision, Canetti reveals Kien's character, displaying the flawed personal relationships which ultimately lead to his destruction. Manipulated by his illiterate and grasping housekeeper, Therese, who has tricked him into marriage, and Benedikt Pfaff, a brutish concierge, Kien is forced out of his apartment - which houses his great library and one true passion - and into the underworld of the city.
Auto Da Fe. by. Canetti Elias. Book Source: Digital Library of India Item 2015. author: Canetti Elias d. ate. te: 2010-10-00 d. citation: 1946 d. dentifier. origpath: 66 d. copyno: 1 d.
Auto Da Fé is the story of Peter Kien, a distinguished, reclusive sinologist living in Germany between the wars. Manipulated by his illiterate and grasping housekeeper, Therese, who has tricked him into marriage, and Benedikt Pfaff, a brutish concierge, Kien is forced out of his apartment - which houses his great library and one true passion - and into the underworld of the city
Canetti’s cornerstone text, Auto da Fe, was published in 1935 but was not translated into English until 1946 because .
Canetti’s cornerstone text, Auto da Fe, was published in 1935 but was not translated into English until 1946 because of the ban imposed by the Nazi Party. Auto da Fe tells the story of Herr Doktor Peter Kien, a self-imposed prisoner of his own apartment and private library in Vienna’s city center. Kien fears and detests any physical contact and social interaction with the outside world. Immersed in his obsessive Chinese studies, he rarely ventures outside as he is paralyzed by the fear of contamination and filth.
He had counted on this; he had no use just now for dangerous or violent people
Canetti, Elias - Auto-da-Fé (FSG, 1984). Uploaded by Luis Enrique Urtubey
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