Elias Canetti, Author, Michael Hofmann, Translator, Jeremy Adler, Afterword by , trans. from the German by Michael Hoffman, intro. by Jeremy Adler. New Directions $22.95 (249p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1636-4
It's easy to see why Bulgarian Nobel Prize winner Canetti's memoir of his years of British exile caused a stir upon its German publication: frank to the point of rudeness, acerbic to the point of crankiness, the author (who died in 1994) had
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Elias Canetti, Author, Ralph Manheim, Translator Farrar Straus Giroux $22.5 (329p) ISBN 978-0-374-23434-8
From the late 1920s through the mid-'30s, Canetti lived and wrote in Vienna, ""an imperial capital which was no longer imperial,'' while ``the great madness spread like wildfire'' in Germany as the Nazis consolidated their grip. The third volume of...
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Elias Canetti, Author, John Hargraves, Translator Farrar Straus Giroux $23 (224p) ISBN 978-0-374-22326-7
Canetti is a meticulous writer, and in reading his notes, one can easily see him hovering over a just formed sentence, pencil in hand, wondering whether to cut or to add or to leave well enough alone. The period covered by the notes collected here...
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Elias Canetti, Author, Joel Agee, Translator Farrar Straus Giroux $19.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-374-25694-4
Dealing largely with the meaning and significance of words and names in various languages, these jottings and paradoxes, by the Bulgarian-born Nobel Laureate, reflect on the indignity of life, death, reincarnation, longevity and immortality, the...
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Edited by Joshua Cohen. Picador, $20 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-0-374-29842-5
In this impressive career-spanning edition, novelist Cohen brings together the works of prolific writer Elias Canetti (1905–1994), an “exile, cosmopole, [and] polyglot” per Cohen’s introduction. Through autobiography, fiction, and aphorism Canetti...
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Elias Canetti, trans. from the German by Peter Filkins. New Directions, $19.95 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-0-8112-3799-4
Nobel laureate Canetti (Auto-Da-Fé) began working on this sublime compendium following the death of his mother in the late 1930s, using his grief as a window onto the mounting human toll of WWII (“Canetti clings to his mother’s demise as generalized
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