The Tongue Set Free

Elias Canetti

1977

Family Pride

Ruschuk, on the lower Danube, where I came into the world, was a marvelous city for a child, and if I say that Ruschuk is in Bulgaria, then I am giving an inadequate picture of it. For people of the most varied backgrounds lived there, and on any one day you could hear seven or eight languages. Aside from the Bulgarians, who often came…

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Elias Canetti

1905–1994

Born in Ruse, Bulgaria, to a Sephardic family, Elias Canetti was a German-language novelist, essayist, and dramatist who lived in Austria, Switzerland, Germany, and England. He is known also for his study of Kafka’s letters and for a three-volume autobiography. Canetti received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981.

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