Canetti

At last the mortal enemy is death itself: this is a principal theme, held to with a strangely pathetic strength, in Canetti's literary works.

Nobel Prize in Literature 1981 - Presentation Speech 1981

My favorite book by Canetti is “Kafka’s Other Trial” – Kafka’s Letters to Felice B. Canetti sees that writers are responsible of the preservation, revivification, and invention of the life-sustaining myths and their meaning.

Brave Old World 2008

My favorite book by Canetti is “Kafka’s Other Trial” – Kafka’s Letters to Felice B. Canetti sees that writers are responsible of the preservation, revivification, and invention of the life-sustaining myths and their meaning.

Vitro Nasu » 2008 » July 2008

If one is reluctant to call him great, said Canetti, that is only because nothing could be more alien to him than greatness.

The Genius of Robert Walser Coetzee, J.M. 2000

So all the characteristics that are behind the dangers of the massing mob, all the risks of crowd psychology and group behavior -- as Elias Canetti described in the seminal "Crowds and Power" -- are at work here.

Adam Hanft: Murdoch's Arab Summer; We Always Knew, Now We Know Adam Hanft 2011

The epitome of this came as far back as 1981 with the award to Elias Canetti, a Ladino-speaking Bulgarian-born German writer who resided in London.

A Rare Swedish Triumph Eric Ormsby 2010

In her essay on Elias Canetti, Sontag notes his admiration for the novelist Hermann Broch and those great patient novels 'The Death of Virgil' and 'The Sleepwalkers.'

A Very Public Intellectual Joseph Epstein 2011

As it happens, Hicks was the first in what would become a long line of "difficult" men to whom Murdoch was attracted, culminating in a long affair with Elias Canetti, the future Nobel Prize-winner.

The Good Apprentice Martin Rubin 2011

Antonin Artaud, Roland Barthes, Samuel Beckett, Walter Benjamin, Elias Canetti and Cioran himself were among the writers about whom Sontag wrote most enthusiastically.

A Very Public Intellectual Joseph Epstein 2011

So all the characteristics that are behind the dangers of the massing mob, all the risks of crowd psychology and group behavior -- as Elias Canetti described in the seminal "Crowds and Power" -- are at work here.

Adam Hanft: Murdoch's Arab Summer; We Always Knew, Now We Know Adam Hanft 2011