A Visit to the Mellah

Elias Canetti

1968

On the third morning, as soon as I was alone, I found the way to the mellah [in Marrakesh]. I came to an intersection where many Jews were standing around. Traffic was streaming past them and around a corner. I saw people pass through a vault that appeared integrated into a wall, and followed them. On the other side of the wall, enclosed on four…

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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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