Creator Bio
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.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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A Visit to the Mellah
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…
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The Tongue Set Free
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…