In 1948, having witnessed the demise of more than 70 million people during World War II, or roughly 3% of the world’s population, Elias Canetti (1905-1994) wrote the following in his notebook: “No ...

Elias Canetti belonged to Europe’s 20th century. It was a period of extreme horrors that gave way to a slow but determined effort to heal. The scale of the suffering that he and millions of others ...

The 20th-century writer made the search for immortality his life’s work. By Jared Marcel Pollen One of the oldest definitions of philosophy is “to learn how to die”. Presupposing no final answer, it ...

Elias Canetti (1905-1994) was a Jewish German-language writer born in Ruse, Bulgaria. His family moved to England, where his father died in 1912. His mother took their three sons back to Europe and ...

It's easy to see why Bulgarian Nobel Prize winner Canetti's memoir of his years of British exile caused a stir upon its German publication: frank to the point of rudeness, acerbic to the point of ...

In 1980, the year before Elias Canetti won the Nobel Prize in Literature, Susan Sontag described him as a writer whose work is “confidently rooted in a certain rich Central European culture” yet “hard ...

Back in the mid-seventies I was studying at the University of Munich and attended for pure amusement a seminar given by the remarkable Wolfgang Frühwald, a very talented philologist who has gone on to ...

Nevertheless, here it is, and let's put it to some use. Canetti's raging egotism, his envy, his taste for betrayal, are all in the Nobel Prize-winning writer's memoir of "the English years". He judges ...

A statue depicting Nobel Prize winner Elias Canetti was unveiled over the weekend in the town of Ruse, northeastern Bulgaria. German-language author Elias Canetti, born in Bulgaria on July 25, 1904, ...

Elias Canetti’s 20th century. Illustration by Andrea Ventura. Elias Canetti belonged to Europe’s 20th century. It was a period of extreme horrors that gave way to a slow but determined effort to heal.