Elias Canetti
Bulgarian-born British author who wrote in German and won the Nobel Prize. His novel Auto-da-Fe is a devastating portrait of a scholar destroyed by his delusions, and his non-fiction Crowds and Power is a major work of social philosophy.
Works
- Auto-da-FeSatirical novel of obsessed sinologist's passion for rare books
- The Voices of MarrakeshTravel memoir documenting author's observations in Morocco
- The Tongue Set FreeFirst volume of memoirs exploring childhood and language acquisition
- The Play of the EyesSecond memoir covering formative years and intellectual awakening
- Crowds and PowerPhilosophical essay on crowd behavior and power dynamics