Elias Canetti

Forblindelsen er en roman av Elias Canetti, bulgarsk-fødte forfatter og av nobelprisvinneren i litteratur for 1981. Han skrev romanen på tysk i åra 1930-1931, og den ble utgitt på forlaget Reichner Verlag i Wien i 1936. Den norske oversettelsen ved Niels Magnus Bugge kom på Solum forlag i 1993. Forblindelsen er en …

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 …

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 …

Crowds and Power is a 1960 book by Elias Canetti, dealing with the dynamics of crowds and "packs" and the question of how and why crowds obey power of rulers. Canetti draws a parallel between ruling and paranoia. Also, the memoirs of Daniel Paul Schreber are analyzed with an implicit critique of Sigmund Freud and …