Bøger af Elias Canetti

Den anden proces, om Kafkas breve til Felice Bauer, er Elias Canettis indtrængende, uforveksleligt personlige læsning af en kierkegaardsk forlovelseshistorie, som svinger mellem tragik og komik. Biografisk er den anden proces dermed Felices og Kafkas proces mod hinanden, men Canetti interesserer sig væsentligst for den "usynlige" proces i Kafka, som er skriveprocessen, tydeligt afhængig af den ydre proces. Canetti søger med alle sine personligt tilegnede indsigter i fænomenerne masse, forvandling, magt ind til betingelserne for Kafkas skriveri, fysiske såvel som mentale, og formår derved at kaste undertiden forbløffende, men altid overbevisende lys over Kafkas værk, ligesom han bidrager energisk til at modvirke de mange metafysiske tolkninger heraf. Den anden proces er lige medrivende som fortælling og som litterær tolkning.???

Captures the essence of Marrakesh: the crowds, the smells - of spices, camels and the souks - and the sounds of the city, from the cries of the blind beggars and the children's call for alms to the unearthly silence on the still roofs above the hordes.

The Book Against Death is the work of a lifetime: a collection of Canetti's aphorisms, diatribes, musings and commentaries on and against death - published in English for the first time since his death in 1994 - interposed with material from philosophers and writers including Goethe, Kafka, Walter Benjamin and Robert Walser.

The Book Against Death is the work of a lifetime: a collection of Elias Canetti's powerful, disarming, and often bleakly comic observations, diatribes, musings, and commentaries on and against death. Evoking despair, melancholy, and fury, Canetti examines the inevitable demise of all beings-from the ant, the fish, and the worm to an executioner, a court painter, and a Greek god-while fiercely protesting the mass deaths incurred during war and the willingness of the despot to wield death as power. Interspersed with material from philosophers and writers such as Goethe, Walter Benjamin, and Robert Walser, The Book Against Death is ultimately a moving affirmation of the value of life itself. Canetti famously refused to die before he'd read all his obituaries and corrected them."I accept no death."-Elias Canetti (1905-1994)

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." A mosaical portrait of an old body's mind determined to do its exercises and not lose a step--and fascinating for that." - Kirkus Reviews

The Play of the Eyes is the third volume in Nobel Prize winning author Elias Canetti's trilogy of memoirs.Here, Canetti describes his young adult life as he tries to make it as a writer in Vienna during the 1930s, and provides vivid accounts of the remarkable figures he meets along the way, usually in cafes, from Robert Musil, Thomas Mann, and Herman Broch, among others. "Canetti uses a dramatist's gifts here to achieve emotional depth; his mother's death, sketched simply against the backdrop of a crumbling Europe, takes on a tragic dignity." - Publishers Weekly

Notes from Hampstead is a map of the late Nobel laureate's thinking, a triumphant compendium of aphoristic, enigmatic, and expository writings covering a characteristically diverse range of subjects."Canetti is a meticulous writer, and in reading his notes, one can easily see him hovering over a just formed sentence, pencil in hand, wondering whether to cut or to add or to leave well enough alone." - Publishers Weekly

The second volume in the Nobel Prize winning author Elias Canetti's trilogy of memoirs, The Torch in My Ear This book presents an account of Canetti's young manhood, of his arrival in Vienna in the early 1920s, of his schooling, and of the beginning of his life as a writer.

Winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize, this first volume of the author's autobiography provides a searching portrait of his personal background and creative development. Elias Canetti was one of the major intellectual figures and polymaths of the twentieth century. A master of many genres, he is known especially for his novel, Auto-da-Fe, and his great work of social theory, Crowds and Power. But Canetti's genius is perhaps nowhere more evident than in the three volumes of his autobiography. This first volume, Tongue Set Free, provides a searching portrait of the author's personal background and creative development as it presents the events, personalities (especially Canetti's mother), and intellectual forces that shaped the growth of the artist as a young man.

Auto-da-Fé, Elias Canetti's only work of fiction, is a staggering achievement that puts him squarely in the ranks of major European writers such as Robert Musil and Hermann Broch. It is the story of Peter Kien, a scholarly recluse who lives among and for his great library. The destruction of Kien through the instrument of the illiterate, brutish housekeeper he marries constitutes the plot of the book. The best writers of our time have been concerned with the horror of the modern world--one thinks of Kafka, to whom Canetti has often been compared. But Auto-da-Fé stands as a completely original, unforgettable treatment of the modern predicament.

Nobelprismodtageren Elias Canetti arbejdede på sit hovedværk, Masse og magt, i mere end 30 år før det så dagens lys først i tresserne. Siden er det blevet oversat til en lang række sprog og har længe været efterlyst i en dansk oversættelse.

Elias Canettis optegnelser fra 1973-1985. På dansk ved Karsten Sand Iversen.

Aforismer og optegnelser fra Elias Canetti. På dansk ved Karsten Sand Iversen.

Wien i 30?erne: I sit tredje og afsluttende erindringsbind, Øjenspillet, er Elias Canetti nu ved at udvikle sig til en selvbevidst forfatter, der arbejder disciplineret og omgås nogle af Europas største kulturpersonligheder: Hermann Broch, Robert Musil, Alban Berg m.fl. og ikke mindst skulptøren Fritz Wotruba, der bliver en slags tvilling for Elias. Undervejs mod 1937 mærker man nazismen som en stadig større trussel under overfladen.Elias? mange møder skildres med skånselsløs præcision - der er syre og ætsen, men også kærlighed og respekt i beskrivelsen af de mange personer i bogen. En lidenskabelig kærlighed til Mahlers datter, Anna, spiller en vigtig rolle, men Elias beslutter sig til at gifte sig med sin Veza fra forrige bind. Det fører til moderens bandlysning af ham indtil hendes død, der afslutter erindringstrilogien.

Wien i 30erne: I sit tredje og afsluttende erindringsbind, Øjenspillet, er Elias Canetti nu ved at udvikle sig til en selvbevidst forfatter, der arbejder disciplineret og omgås nogle af Europas største kulturpersonligheder: Hermann Broch, Robert Musil, Alban Berg m.fl. og ikke mindst skulptøren Fritz Wotruba, der bliver en slags tvilling for Elias. Undervejs mod 1937 mærker man nazismen som en stadig større trussel under overfladen.Elias mange møder skildres med skånselsløs præcision - der er syre og ætsen, men også kærlighed og respekt i beskrivelsen af de mange personer i bogen. En lidenskabelig kærlighed til Mahlers datter, Anna, spiller en vigtig rolle, men Elias beslutter sig til at gifte sig med sin Veza fra forrige bind. Det fører til moderens bandlysning af ham indtil hendes død, der afslutter erindringstrilogien.

Wien i 20erne: Karl Kraus udgiver litteraturtidsskriftet "Faklen", mens Elias er i sin allermest påvirkelige alder. Kraus' stemme runger konstant i Elias ører, indtil han hvirvles ind i Berlins pulserende kulturmiljøer i slutningen af 20erne og begynder at finde sit eget intellektuelle ståsted.I dette andet erindringsbind bliver Elias voksen. Han opnår efterhånden en vis frihed og selvstændighed i forhold til moren. Det er episoder med forelskelse, studier og rejser gengivet af en usædvanlig klog og sensitiv fortæller. 

Karlsbad i 1907: I Elias Canettis tidligste erindring, Den reddede tunge, bliver han på barnepigens arm båret ud ad en dør. Frem træder en mand og siger: "Vis mig tungen!" Manden trækker barnets tunge frem og fører bladet af en lommekniv tæt hen til den. Scenen gentages igen og igen.Barnet sladrer ikke til forældrene. Truslen mod tungen forhindrer alligevel ikke, at pigen og mandens forhold opdages, og pigen sendes bort. Elias Canettis tunge blev reddet!Episoder af denne stærkt ladede, usædvanlige slags fylder nobelpristageren Elias Canetti erindringer fra en utroligt omskiftelig barndom og ungdom i Bulgarien, England, Østrig og Schweiz i århundredets første tyve år.

"For den sande magthavers egentlige hensigt er lige så grotesk som utrolig: han vil være den eneste. Han vil overleve alle, for at ingen skal overleve ham. For enhver pris vil han undgå døden, og derfor skal der ingen være, overhovedet ingen, som kan volde hans død. Så længe der er mennesker til, uanset hvem de er, vil han aldrig føle sig sikker. Selv hans vagter, kan vende sig mod ham. Beviset for, at han i hemmelighed altid er bange for dem, han befaler over, er let tilvejebragt: og hele tiden nærer han ligeledes frygt for sin nærmeste omgivelser." Digterens hverv består af fem udvalgte essays fra Canettis essaybind Das Gewissen der Worte.

Offers insights into the creativity of Franz Kafka and the torment he suffered as a man, a lover, and a writer. This book explores the letter that Kafka wrote to his fiancee, from their first tender moments together to his final letter and his refusal to reconcile.

This is the second volume of Elias Canetti's autobiography. 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, and an account of the Vienna and Berlin of the 1920s.

The first part of the Nobel Prize winner's classic autobiography, reissued by Granta in a stunning new paperback edition.

This is the third volume of Elias Canetti's autobiography. It is set in Vienna between 1931 and 1937, at a time when the European catastrophe was already clear to anyone with eyes to see. The book is both a portrait of its time and an intellectual and spiritual autobiography.

Felice Bauer was Kafka's first great love and the inspiration for his first great fiction. Six weeks after they met, he wrote "The Judgment" for her in one night of feverish activity. Kafka always inferred to the traumatic, public breaking-off of their engagement as his "tribunal," and indeed he began work on The Trial within a month of that event.Kafka's letters to Felice offer rare insights into the writer's life and art. Elias Canetti's brilliant and sensitive examination of this moving correspondence to shows is the origins of Kafka's voice as a writer and his torment as a man.

Nobelpristagerens smukkeste og litterært umiddelbart mest tilgængelige bog. En bog om at være opmærksom på at rejse.