Volume 27, Number 14 · September 25, 1980
Mind as Passion
By Susan Sontag
The Tongue Set Free: Remembrance of a European Childhood
by Elias Canetti, translated by Joachim Neugroschel
Continuum Books/Seabury Press, 268 pp., $12.95
The Conscience of Words
by Elias Canetti, translated by Joachim Neugroschel
Continuum Books/Seabury Press, 246 pp., $12.95
Earwitness: Fifty Characters
by Elias Canetti, translated by Joachim Neugroschel
Continuum Books/Seabury Press, 101 pp., $7.95
The Human Province
by Elias Canetti, translated by Joachim Neugroschel
Continuum Books/Seabury Press, 281 pp., $12.95
The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit
by Elias Canetti, translated by J.A. Underwood
Continuum Books/Seabury Press, 103 pp., $7.95
Crowds and Power
by Elias Canetti, translated by Carol Stewart
Continuum Books/Seabury Press, 495 pp., $8.95 (paper)
Auto-da-Fé
by Elias Canetti, translated by C.V. Wedgwood
Continuum Books/Seabury Press, 480 pp., $9.95 (paper)
Elias Canetti is the author of seven books translated from German into English, each carrying words of praise from famous writers. His work—which includes a novel, a study of the psychology of groups, literary and political essays, three plays, and an autobiography in progress—has never lacked admirers, and yet aside from scattered reviews he has not been much written about, has never been the subject of a book or major study. Though confidently rooted in a certain rich Central European culture, his work is hard to place, even willfully placeless. Canetti's effort has been to stand apart from other writers and he has succeeded. Shunning the modern means by which a writer gains an audience, he long ago decided that he would, he must, live long enough for his audience to come to him. Canetti is, both literally and by his own ambitions, a writer in exile.
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