Iris Murdoch called Auto da Fé "one of the few great novels of the century." Peter Kien is a reclusive Sinologist living in Germany between the wars. Canetti creates the elements in Kien, and in his personal relationships, that will lead to his destruction.

Auto Da Fe

Literature & Fiction

elias-canetti

Contemporary

Vintage

Text: English, German (translation)

Letters to Felice / Kafka's Other Trial (Penguin Modern Classics)

Franz, Kafka

Penguin??Books

A record of Kafka's turbulent romance with Felice Bauer reveals her influence on his literary endeavors

Kafka's Other Trial the Letters to Felice

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Voices of Marrakesh A Record of a Visit

Voices of Marrakesh

Travel

Africa

Kafka's Other Trial: The Letters to Felice

In July 1914, Franz Kafka's fiancee Felice broke off their engagement in a humiliating public tribunal. In this short book, Elias Canetti explores each letter that Kafka wrote to Felice and offers insights into the torment he suffered as a man, a lover and a writer.

Secret Heart of the Clock

Andre Deutsch Ltd.

The Conscience of Words & Ear Witness

Picador/Pan Books

Personal writings from 1942 to 1972 explore such topics as mythology, religious experience, and human potential in addition to reflecting Canetti's spiritual and intellectual development

The Human Province

Picador

Providing a portrait of the author's personal background and creative development, this book presents the events, personalities and intellectual forces which shaped the growth of this artist as a young man. It covers his up-bringing in Bulgaria and later homes in Manchester, Vienna and Zurich. He was born in 1905 and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981. This is the first volume of this three-volume autobiography by the author of "Auto de Fe".

Tougue Set Free (Picador Books)

Pan Books

This is the third volume of Elias Canetti's autobiography, following "The Tongue Set Free" and "The Torch in My Ear". It is set in Vienna between 1931 and 1937, at a time when the European catastrophe was already clear to anyone with eyes to see. The book is both a portrait of its time and an intellectual and spiritual autobiography. Canetti describes his relationships with Herman Broch, Robert Musil, Fritz Wortruba, the composer Alban Berg, and Alma Mahler.

The Play of the Eyes (Picador Books)

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