Auto Da Fé

Dr Elias Canetti, C. V. Wedgwood

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German

Harvill
01 August 2005

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

'Strange, savage, subtle, beautifully mysterious... one of the great novels of the

twentieth

century' - Iris Murdoch

Auto Da Fe is the story of Peter Kien, a distinguished, reclusive sinologist living in Germany between the wars. With masterly precision, Canetti reveals Kien's character, displaying the flawed personal relationships which ultimately lead to his destruction.

Manipulated by his illiterate and grasping housekeeper, Therese, who has tricked him into marriage, and Benedikt Pfaff, a brutish concierge, Kien is forced out of his apartment - which houses his great library and one true passion - and into the underworld of the city. In this purgatory he is guided by a chess-playing dwarf of evil propensities, until he is eventually restored to his home. But on his return he is visited by his brother, an eminent psychiatrist who, by an error of diagnosis, precipitates the final crisis...

Auto Da Fe was first published in Germany in 1935 as Die Blendung (The Blinding or Bedazzlement) and later in Britain in 1947, where the publisher noted Canetti as a 'writer of strongly individual genius, which may prove influential', an observation borne out when the author was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981. Auto Da Fe still towers as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, and Canetti's incisive vision of an insular man battling agianst the outside world is as fresh and rewarding today as when first it appeared in print.

By: Dr Elias Canetti
Translated by: C. V. Wedgwood
Imprint: Harvill
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 33mm
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781843432586
ISBN 10: 1843432587
Pages: 464
Publication Date: 01 August 2005
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Elias Canetti (1905-1994) of Spanish-Jews parents lived in in Vienna until 1937 and spent much of his working life in Britain during and after the war. He became a British citizen in 1952 but wrote in German, the language of his childhood and youth spent in Vienna, Zurich and Frankfurt.

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One of the few undoubted masterpieces of our time -- John Davenport A mad, magnificent work Spectator A strange, eloquent and terrifying book -- Polly Toynbee The work of a remarkable talent Observer

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