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Canetti

NOUN
  1. English writer born in Germany (1905-1994)

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  • As it happens, Hicks was the first in what would become a long line of "difficult" men to whom Murdoch was attracted, culminating in a long affair with Elias Canetti, the future Nobel Prize-winner. The Good Apprentice
  • The whole sorry business makes her think of this Canetti quote.
  • So all the characteristics that are behind the dangers of the massing mob, all the risks of crowd psychology and group behavior -- as Elias Canetti described in the seminal "Crowds and Power" -- are at work here. Adam Hanft: Murdoch's Arab Summer; We Always Knew, Now We Know
  • If one is reluctant to call him great, said Canetti, that is only because nothing could be more alien to him than greatness. The Genius of Robert Walser
  • Next, Canetti goes back to tribal cultures to explore what he calls the pack, which is a more primitive form of the crowd. History on the Couch
  • In her essay on Elias Canetti, Sontag notes his admiration for the novelist Hermann Broch and those great patient novels 'The Death of Virgil' and 'The Sleepwalkers.' A Very Public Intellectual
  • At last the mortal enemy is death itself: this is a principal theme, held to with a strangely pathetic strength, in Canetti's literary works. Nobel Prize in Literature 1981 - Presentation Speech
  • My favorite book by Canetti is “Kafka’s Other Trial” – Kafka’s Letters to Felice B. Canetti sees that writers are responsible of the preservation, revivification, and invention of the life-sustaining myths and their meaning. Brave Old World
  • The epitome of this came as far back as 1981 with the award to Elias Canetti, a Ladino-speaking Bulgarian-born German writer who resided in London. A Rare Swedish Triumph
  • And of all those writers—Zweig, Musil, Schnitzler, Kafka, Hofmannsthal, Kraus, Canetti, the list goes on—the supreme elegist of the Dual Monarchy was Joseph Roth. Dispatches From a Lost Empire
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