Ellias Canetti – Bulgary

Bulgarian-born German novelist, essayist, sociologist, and playwright, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981. Elias Canetti's best-known works is Crowds and Power (1960), an imaginative study of mass movements, death and disordered society which drew on history, folklore, myth, and literature. The book was inspired by the burning of the Palace on Justice in Vienna in 1927. Canetti started publishing in the 1930s but it was not until the 1960s and especially after the Nobel price that his work started to gain sustained critical attention. Most of his life he was resident in London, but he did not actively associate with English writers or German language colleagues

           

Known Literary Works :

·         Komödie der Eitelkeit Die Blendung 1935 (

·         Auto-da-Fé , novel, tr.1946) Die Blendung

• Die Befristeten 1956 (1956 premiere of the play in Oxford) ( Their Days are Numbered ) Die Befristeten