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Elias Canetti (1905–1994)

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Elias Canetti was born in Rustschuk, Bulgaria on July 25, 1905 into a Sephardic Jewish family. He was educated in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria and received a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Vienna in 1929. He wrote novels and plays in German. His works explored the emotions of vis mere crowds, the psychopathology of power, and the position of the individual at odds with the society around him. His novels include Auto-da- Fé and Masse und Macht. His plays include Hochzeit, Komödie der Eitelkeit, and Die Befristeten. He also published excerpts from his notebooks, a book of character sketches, and an autobiography. He received numerous awards including the Vienna Prize in 1966, the Critics Prize (Germany) in 1967, the Great Austrian State Prize in 1967, the Buchner Prize in 1972, the Sachs Prize in 1975, the Hebbel Prize in 1980, and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981. He died on August 14, 1994. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Værker af Elias Canetti

Forblindelsen (1935) 2,347 eksemplarer
Crowds and Power (1960) 1,389 eksemplarer
The Torch in my Ear (1980) 572 eksemplarer
The Play of the Eyes (1985) 372 eksemplarer
Letters to Felice / Kafka's Other Trial (1969) — Forfatter — 282 eksemplarer
The Human Province (1972) 262 eksemplarer
Ørenvidnet. 50 karakterer (1974) 212 eksemplarer
The Conscience of Words (1975) 189 eksemplarer
Party in the Blitz (2003) 182 eksemplarer
Het boek tegen de dood (2014) 84 eksemplarer
Toneel (1964) 70 eksemplarer
Slotsom aantekeningen 1992-1993 (1996) 40 eksemplarer
Komödie der Eitelkeit (1983) — Forfatter — 24 eksemplarer
Potere e sopravvivenza: saggi (1972) 17 eksemplarer
The Wedding (1986) 17 eksemplarer
Aufzeichnungen 1973-1984 (1901) 15 eksemplarer
Crowds and Power, book 1 of 2 (1971) 13 eksemplarer
Crowds and Power, book 2 of 2 (1960) 11 eksemplarer
Über die Dichter (2004) 11 eksemplarer
Aufzeichnungen für Marie-Louise (2005) 10 eksemplarer
Apuntes (2008) 8 eksemplarer
Briefe an Georges (2006) — Forfatter — 8 eksemplarer
Über Tiere (2002) 8 eksemplarer
Essays in honor of Elias Canetti (1986) 7 eksemplarer
Aufzeichnungen 1942 - 1948 (1965) 6 eksemplarer
A túlélő (1960) 5 eksemplarer
Die Befristeten (1988) 4 eksemplarer
Prozesse. Über Franz Kafka. (2019) 4 eksemplarer
Apuntes/ Notes (Spanish Edition) (2008) 4 eksemplarer
Appunti 1942-1993 (2021) 3 eksemplarer
Werke: 13 Bde. u. Begleitbd. (1995) 3 eksemplarer
Fritz Wotruba 3 eksemplarer
Myśli (1981) 3 eksemplarer
Imágenes de una vida (2005) 2 eksemplarer
Marakes'te Sesler (2015) 2 eksemplarer
Saatin Gizli Yuregi (2015) 2 eksemplarer
Edebiyatç¸lar Üzerine (2007) 2 eksemplarer
Zwiesprache 1931-1976 2 eksemplarer
Sozcuklerin Bilinci (2020) 2 eksemplarer
GJUHA E SHPETUAR 2 eksemplarer
Welt im Kopf 2 eksemplarer
Gesammelte Werke. (1994) 2 eksemplarer
Opere 1973-1987 (1993) 2 eksemplarer
Opere, 1932-1973 (1990) 2 eksemplarer
The Numbered (1984) 2 eksemplarer
Lettres à Georges (2009) 1 eksemplar
猶予された者たち (1975) 1 eksemplar
O smrti 1 eksemplar
VETEDIJA E FJALEVE 1 eksemplar
Obra completa 1 eksemplar
Feljegyzések (2006) 1 eksemplar
Insanin Tasrasi (2004) 1 eksemplar
Aufzeichnungen (2016) 1 eksemplar
Aufsätze und Reden (2016) 1 eksemplar
Sinek Azabi (2017) 1 eksemplar
Öbür Dava (2010) 1 eksemplar
Marocco 1 eksemplar
Svědomí slov (1992) 1 eksemplar
provincia dell'uomo (1986) 1 eksemplar
El joc d'ulls 1 eksemplar
Gözlerin Oyunu (2020) 1 eksemplar
Dramen 1 eksemplar

Associated Works

The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories (1998) — Bidragyder — 131 eksemplarer
Deutschland erzählt. Von Rainer Maria Rilke bis Peter Handke (1975) — Bidragyder — 29 eksemplarer
Escape: Stories of Getting Away (2002) — Bidragyder — 26 eksemplarer
The Schocken Book of Modern Sephardic Literature (2005) — Bidragyder — 24 eksemplarer
The Wet Parade (1931) — Oversætter, nogle udgaver16 eksemplarer
La Littérature démolie (1990) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver12 eksemplarer
Deutsche Erzählungen III. Deutsch - Englisch. (1988) — Bidragyder — 6 eksemplarer

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Kanonisk navn
Canetti, Elias
Juridisk navn
Canetti, Elias
Fødselsdato
1905-07-25
Dødsdag
1994-08-14
Begravelsessted
Zürich, Zwitserland
Køn
male
Nationalitet
Groot-Brittannië
Bulgarije (geboren)
Land (til kort)
Bulgarije
Fødested
Ruse, Bulgarije
Roetsjoek/Rustschuk, Bulgarije
Dødssted
Zürich, Zwitserland
Bopæl
Vienna, Austria
Hampstead, London, England, UK
Manchester, England, UK
Berlin, Germany
Uddannelse
University of Vienna (Ph.D | 1929)
Erhverv
novelist
playwright
essayist
Sociologist
Relationer
Canetti, Veza (echtegenote)
Organisationer
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary, Literature, 1984)
Priser og hædersbevisninger
Georg-Büchner-Preis (1972)
Nobelprijs voor Literatuur (1981)
Literaturpreis der Stadt Wien (1966)
Nelly-Sachs-Preis (1975)
Gottfried-Keller-Preis (1977)
Kort biografi
Elias Canetti was born in Bulgaria to a Jewish family. The family moved to Britain in 1911; to Vienna the following year; to Zürich in 1916; and then (until 1924) to Frankfurt, where Canetti graduated from high school. He learned to speak Ladino (his native language), Bulgarian, English, German, and French. In 1938, a few days after Kristallnacht, Canetti and his wife Veza escaped to London, where they received British citizenship in 1952. Veza died in 1963, and for his last 20 years, Canetti mostly lived in Zürich. Nearly all his writings were in German. Canetti won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981.

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