Author: Veza Canetti
Publisher: New Directions
Keywords: paperbook, directions, new, tortoises
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-06-29
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0811216969
ISBN-13: 9780811216968

Spare, dark, and cinematic, The Tortoises describes life in the Nazi reign of terror.A renowned writer and his wife live quietly in a beautiful villa outside Vienna, until the triumphant Nazis start subjecting their Jewish "hosts" to ever greater humiliations. Veza Canetti focuses on seemingly ordinary people to epitomize the horror: one flag-happy German kills a sparrow before a group of little children; another, more entrepreneurial Nazi brands tortoises with swastikas to sell as souvenirs commemorating the Anschluss.

Author: Elias Canetti
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: power, crowds
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 1984-04-01
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0374518203
ISBN-13: 9780374518202

Crowds and Power is a revolutionary work in which Elias Canetti finds a new way of looking at human history and psychology. Breathtaking in its range and erudition, it explores Shiite festivals and the English Civil war, the finger exercises of monkeys and the effects of inflation in Weimar Germany. In this study of the interplay of crowds, Canetti offers one of the most profound and startling portraits of the human condition.

Author: Elias Canetti
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: torch
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2009-05-01
List price: $29.00
ISBN-10: 0374518041
ISBN-13: 9780374518042

The Torch in My Ear is the account of Canetti’s young manhood, of his arrival in Vienna in the early 1920s, of his schooling, and of the beginning of his life as a writer.

Author: Elias Canetti
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: eyes, play
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2005-12-26
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 0374530610
ISBN-13: 9780374530617

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.

Author: Elias Canetti
Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
Keywords: record, marrakesh, voices
Number of Pages: 104
Published: 2002-09-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0714525804
ISBN-13: 9780714525808

Winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Literature, Elias Canetti uncovers the secret life hidden beneath Marrakesh’s bewildering array of voices, gestures and faces. In a series of sharply etched scenes, he portrays the languages and cultures of the people who fill its bazaars, cafes, and streets. The book presents vivid images of daily life: the storytellers in the Djema el Fna, the armies of beggars ready to set upon the unwary, and the rituals of Moroccan family life. This is Marrakesh -described by one of Europe’s major literary intellects in an account lauded as "cosmopolitan in the tradi

Author: Elias Canetti
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: fãƒâ©, auto
Number of Pages: 468
Published: 1984-12-01
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0374518793
ISBN-13: 9780374518790

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 o

Author: Elias Canetti
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: notes, writer, hampstead
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 2005-12-01
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0374530599
ISBN-13: 9780374530594

Nobel Prize winner Elias Canetti kept this writer’s journal from 1954 to 1971 while he was living in London and writing, among other things, Crowds and Power. It’s a deliberately unstructured list of ideas and possibilities from which his thematic obsessions emerge only gradually. Most entries are just a sentence or two in length, varying in quality from the obvious to the profound. Many take the tantalizing form of a fictional premise not followed through ("A country where everyone walks backwards, to keep an eye on themselves. A country where all turn their backs on o