BOOKS by Elias Canetti

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1	Auto Da Fe more books like this by Professor Elias Canetti add to wishlist Auto Da Fe is the story of Peter Kien, a distinguished, reclusive Sinologist living in Germany between the wars. With masterly precision, Canetti builds up the elements in Kien himself, and his personal relationships, which will lead to his destruction. Between his illiterate and grasping housekeeper, Therese, who has tricked him into marriage, ... see all copies from $3.87! new only from $8.17! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Masse Und Macht by Elias Canetti add to wishlist see all copies from $16.52! new only from $42.91!
3	Crowds and Power more books like this by Professor Elias Canetti add to wishlist Considered one of the great books of the twentieth century Crowds and Power was the work responsible for winning Elias Canetti the 1981 Nobel Prize. From the destructive behaviour of soccer crowds to the horror of tyrannical rulers and from Bushmen and Pueblo Indian rain dances to the pilgrimage to Mecca, the author takes us on a fascinating ... see all copies from $4.81! new only from $7.99! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Notes from Hampstead: The Writer's Notes: 1954-1971 more books like this by Professor Elias Canetti, John Hargraves (Translator) add to wishlist In a series of notes, Nobel Prize-winning writer Canetti meditates on religion and myth, ethnicity and creativity, loneliness and fame, and much more. Canetti kept this journal--essentially a writer's diary--between 1954 and 1971, the crucial years in his literary and intellectual life when he was living in London's Hampstead and writing, among ... see all copies from $2.54! new only from $14.71! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Kafka's Other Trail: The Letters to Felice more books like this by Professor Elias Canetti, Christopher Middleton (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.38! \| SVS
6	The Memoirs of Elias Canetti: The Tongue Set Free, the Torch in My Ear, the Play of the Eyes more books like this by Professor Elias Canetti add to wishlist The memoirs of the late Nobel Laureate, for the first time in one volume. The uncompromising achievement of Elias Canetti is one matched by few writers this century. His novel, Auto-da-Fé, and his work of social theory, Crowds and Power, are modern classics, displaying a voracious intellect and exquisite sensibility that belie their author's ... see all copies from $35.00! new only from $185.63! \| first editions
7	The Voices of Marrakesh more books like this by Professor Elias Canetti, J A Underwood (Translator) add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $4.91! new only from $7.77! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Selected Short Writings more books like this by Karl Kraus, Professor Elias Canetti, Hermann Broch add to wishlist The literature of the Wiener Moderne exhibits biting social satire and other related aspects, first emanating from Karl Kraus (1874-1936), a prolific writer, difficult to classify, who reminds people of Jonathan Swift. Novelists and essayists Hermann Broch (1886-1951) and Elias Canetti (1905-94), who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981, ... see all copies from $14.69! new only from $15.00!
9	Earwitness: Fifty Characters more books like this by Professor Elias Canetti add to wishlist see all copies from $4.53! new only from $99.00! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Play of the Eyes: T more books like this by Professor Elias Canetti, Ralph Manheim (Translator) add to wishlist The third and last volume of Canetti's autobiography describes the political and literary life in Vienna in the thirties, particularly his friendship with the writers Hermann Broch and Robert Musil. see all copies from $3.74! new only from $10.00! \| first editions
11	Party in the Blitz: The English Years more books like this by Professor Elias Canetti, Michael Hofmann (Translator), Jeremy Adler (Afterword by) add to wishlist Elias Canetti, who won the Nobel Prize in 1994, was a Bulgarian-born writer who, fleeing the Nazis, moved to England with his wife in 1939, when he was 34. There he became involved with an intellectual social set that included T.S. Eliot, William Empson, Arthur Waley, and of course Iris Murdoch, with whom Canetti had a tumultuous three-year affair ... see all copies from $6.66! new only from $14.38! \| first editions
12	The Secret Heart of the Clock Own more books like this by Professor Elias Canetti, Joel Agee (Translator) add to wishlist From one of the preeminent intellectual figures of the twentieth century, a highly personal testimonial of what Canetti himself chooses to term "notations," bits and pieces: notes, aphorisms, fragments. Taken together, they present an awesomely tender, guiltily gloomy meditation on death and aging. see all copies from $10.00! new only from $11.00! \| first editions
13	The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit more books like this by Professor Elias Canetti add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $2.82! new only from $116.26! \| signed copies \| first editions
14	Essays in Honor of Elias Canetti more books like this by Professor Elias Canetti add to wishlist see all copies from $5.76! first editions
15	Auto da fé more books like this by Elias Canetti add to wishlist see all copies from $5.95! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
16 view cover	Party in the Blitz more books like this by Professor Elias Canetti add to wishlist "It is time for me to turn to England again, for I sense how these memories gradually fade, and it would be a pity if nothing remained of forty years in that country" Exceedingly perceptive, at times amusing and always unpredictable, this autobiography of Nobel Prize winner Elias Canetti is a fascinating and enjoyable read. Canetti spent many ... see all copies from $11.25! new only from $19.97! \| first editions
17	Die Gerettete Zunge Geschichte Einer Jug by Elias Canetti add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95!
18	The human province more books like this by Elias Canetti add to wishlist see all copies from $4.82! new only from $15.90! \| first editions
19	Die gerettete Zunge : Geschichte einer Jugend more books like this by Elias Canetti add to wishlist see all copies from $4.00! new only from $71.14!
20 view cover	Agony of Flies: Notes and Notations more books like this by Professor Elias Canetti, H R Broch De Rotherman (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $6.60! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
21	Die Stimmen Von Marrakesch by Elias Canetti add to wishlist see all copies from $13.93! new only from $31.40!
22 view cover	Play of the Eyes: Winner of the 1981 Novel Prize for Literature more books like this by Elias Canetti, Ralph Manheim (Translator) add to wishlist The third and last volume of Canetti's autobiography describes the political and literary life in Vienna in the thirties, particularly his friendship with the writers Hermann Broch and Robert Musil. see all copies from $2.23! first editions
23 view cover	Auto de Fe - Obra Completa 2 by Professor Elias Canetti add to wishlist see all copies from $12.00! new only from $20.46!
24	Comedy of Vanity Lifeterm more books like this by Professor Elias Canetti, Ms. Gitta Honegger (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $9.83! first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	The torch in my ear more books like this by Elias Canetti add to wishlist This is the second volume of Elias Canetti's autobiography, following "The Tongue Set Free" and preceding "The Play of the Eyes". It is above all else an account of his admiration for the first great mentor of his adult years, the Viennese writer Karl Kraus. It is also a portrait of Canetti's first wife, Veza. Within the framework of these great ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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