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Förbländningen

AvElias Canetti

Inbunden, Svenska, 2020

207 kr

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»En av 1900-talets bästa romaner.« | Iris Murdoch

»I Förbländningen besparas ingen. Professor och möbelförsäljare, doktor, hushållerska och tjuv alla är under angrepp. Den obarmhärtiga kvaliteten i komedin bygger upp en av århundradets mest skräckinjagande litterära världar.« | Salman Rushdie

Ett av 1900-talets märkvärdigaste romanmästerverk

Språkforskaren Peter Kien vill bara vara i fred med sina tjugotusen böcker i våningen i Wien. Han har inte många försonande egenskaper: kall, rigid, misantropisk, misogyn. Genom ett ödesdigert missförstånd blir han tvungen att gifta sig med sin hushållerska Therese. Vad som först liknar en praktisk lösning slutar som mänsklig samvaro ofta gör - i katastrof. Förbländningen från 1935 blev Canettis enda roman. En mänsklighetens vansinneskomedi om hur människor inte kan sluta behärska varandra. Respektabel är här endast maktmänniskan - den starke bländar den svage. Canetti var sin onda tid på spåren, långt före andra världskrigets utbrott. Med ett förord av kritikern Fredrik Hertzberg.

ELIAS CANETTI [1905-1994] föddes i Bulgarien men skrev på tyska och levde större delen av sitt liv i England. Förutom mästerverket Förbländningen, hans enda roman, är han känd för sin memoartrilogi och för den filosofiska essän Massa & makt [1960]. 1981 tilldelades han Nobelpriset i litteratur.

»Elias Canetti registrerar klart och knivskarpt som Kafka. En av förra seklets märkvärdigaste romaner.« | Aftonbladet

»Förbländningen är ett verkligt kraftprov. Med en prosa som präglas av en stark stilistisk medvetenhet beskriver Elias Canetti skeenden som blir både absurt fantasifulla och groteskt demoniska. Den gestaltande kraften är helt Canettis egen han är en oefterhärmelig röst!« | Kristianstadsbladet

Massa och makt

AvElias Canetti

Inbunden, Svenska, 2022

295 kr

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»I Massa och makt beskriver författaren förhållandet mellan individ och kollektiv utifrån olika exempel på massor och hur människor som en del av en massa tillskansar sig makt eller böjer sig för denna. Texten är välskriven, innehållsrik och mångskiftande.« Betyg: 4 av 5 - Björn Nilsson, BTJ

»Så snart man har överlämnat sig åt massan, fruktar man inte dess beröring.« Elias Canettis omvälvande bok från 1960 är en undersökning av människan och samhället, och framför allt av hur människor i större grupper både utövar och underkastar sig makt. Med exempel från de mest skilda sfärer - apors handrörelser, religiösa festivaler, inflationens betydelse i Weimarrepubliken - bygger Canetti upp en komplex bild av det mänskliga tillståndet: rädslan är grundvillkoret, och folkmassan utgör drivkraften för all förändring genom historien. Såväl totalitära som revolutionära rörelser följer samma logik - massan blir en egen kropp, och varje föreställning om ansvar och individualitet sätts ur spel. Canetti skriver utifrån egna erfarenheter, och med språkets alla nyanser. Massa och makt är en oöverträffad kartläggning av människans psyke, hennes otillräcklighet och hennes djupaste skräck. I översättning av Paul Frisch, med ett nyskrivet förord av Martin Lagerholm, litteraturkritiker och kulturskribent.

ELIAS CANETTI var en tyskspråkig författare och kemist, född i Bulgarien 1905. Han flyttade tidigt till England och senare Österrike. Hans enda roman, mästerverket Förbländningen [1936], är sedan tidigare utgiven av Modernista. 1981 tilldelades han Nobelpriset i litteratur »för ett författarskap präglat av vid utblick, idérikedom och konstnärlig kraft«. Han dog i Schweiz 1994.

Auto Da Fé

AvElias Canetti

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

228 kr

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Auto Da Fé is the story of Peter Kien, a distinguished, reclusive sinologist living in Germany between the wars. With masterly precision, Canetti reveals Kien's character, displaying the flawed personal relationships which ultimately lead to his destruction.Manipulated by his illiterate and grasping housekeeper, Therese, who has tricked him into marriage, and Benedikt Pfaff, a brutish concierge, Kien is forced out of his apartment - which houses his great library and one true passion - and into the underworld of the city. In this purgatory he is guided by a chess-playing dwarf of evil propensities, until he is eventually restored to his home. But on his return he is visited by his brother, an eminent psychiatrist who, by an error of diagnosis, precipitates the final crisis...Auto Da Fé was first published in Germany in 1935 as Die Blendung (The Blinding or Bedazzlement) and later in Britain in 1947, where the publisher noted Canetti as a 'writer of strongly individual genius, which may prove influential', an observation borne out when the author was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981. Auto Da Fé still towers as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, and Canetti's incisive vision of an insular man battling agianst the outside world is as fresh and rewarding today as when first it appeared in print.

Book Against Death

AvElias Canetti

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

162 kr

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In 1937, Elias Canetti began collecting notes for the project that ‘by definition, he could never live to complete’, as translator Peter Filkins writes in his afterword. The Book Against Death is the work of a lifetime: a collection of Canetti’s aphorisms, diatribes, musings and commentaries on and against death – published in English for the first time since his death in 1994 – interspersed with material from philosophers and writers including Goethe, Walter Benjamin and Robert Walser. This major work by the 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate is a disarming and often darkly comic reckoning with the inevitability of death and with its politicization, evoking despair at the loss of loved ones and the impossibility of facing one’s own death, while fiercely protesting the mass deaths incurred during war and the willingness of the despot to wield death as power. Infused with fervour and vitality, The Book Against Death ultimately forms a moving affirmation of the value of life itself.

Kafka's Other Trial

AvElias Canetti

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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In July 1914, Franz Kafka's fiancée Felice broke off their engagement in a humiliating public tribunal, surrounded by her friends and family, and the other woman with whom Kafka had recently fallen in love. Broken and bereft, Kafka - at the height of his writing powers - turned the experience into his masterpiece, The Trial, where his lovers became the faceless prosecutors of Josef K. In Kafka's Other Trial, Canetti explores each letter that Kafka wrote to his fiancée, from their first tender moments together to his final letter and his refusal to reconcile. In this affecting book, he offers moving insights into the creativity of Franz Kafka and the torment he suffered as a man, a lover, and a writer.

Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit

AvElias Canetti

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

125 kr

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Nobel Prize-winning author Canetti spent only a few weeks in Marrakesh, but it was a visit that would remain with him for the rest of his life. In The Voices of Marrakesh, he captures the essence of that place: the crowds, the smells - of spices, camels and the souks - and, most importantly to Canetti, the sounds of the city, from the cries of the blind beggars and the children's call for alms to the unearthly silence on the still roofs above the hordes. In these immaculately crafted essays, Canetti examines the emotions Marrakesh stirred within him and the people who affected him for ever.

I Want to Keep Smashing Myself Until I Am Whole

An Elias Canetti Reader

AvElias Canetti,Joshua Cohen

AvElias Canetti

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

238 kr

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Selected Short Writings

Karl Kraus, Hermann Broch, Elias Canetti, Robert Walser

AvKarl Kraus,Hermann Brochm. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

668 kr

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The literature of the Wiener Moderne exhibits biting social satire and other related aspects, first emanating from Karl Kraus (1874-1936), a prolific writer, difficult to classify, who reminds people of Jonathan Swift. Novelists and essayists Hermann Broch (1886-1951) and Elias Canetti (1905-94), who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981, were likewise marginalized, to a large extent as Jews. Robert Walser (1878-1956) is Swiss, and to a large extent like the other three authors in this collection, had no less a desire to upset the social applecart. Among the works included are substantive selection from Krauss's "The Last Days of Mankind and Aphorisms", Bloch's "The Anarchist," selections from Canetti's "Crowds and Power and Auto-da-Fe", and Walser's "Jakob von Gunten".

Crowds and Power

AvElias Canetti

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

178 kr

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What is power, and what is the crowd? How do the two relate to each other? Crowds and Power is a striking and unclassifiable study of how human beings behave in groups and how collective forces shape history. Rejecting conventional sociology, 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Elias Canetti creates a unique framework that draws on anthropology, mythology, psychology, history, psychoanalysis and literature to explain why crowds form, how they act and what makes them so powerful. Drawing on his experiences in Vienna in the 1930s and a range of material spanning centuries and every continent, Canetti offers insights into the psychology of the crowd, the variety of religious experience, the paranoia of rulers and the pathology of power. A visionary and provocative book, Crowds and Power is a major work illuminating the forces driving mass movements and offers one of the most profound and startling portraits of the human condition ever written.

Play Of The Eyes

AvElias Canetti

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

114 kr

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The third volume of Canetti's autobiography is set in Vienna between 1931 and 1937: years when the European catastrophe, already clear to anyone with eyes to see, was approaching its horrifying climax. To this great intellectual and spiritual self-portrait Canetti adds wonderful portraits of his friends and rivals: Herman Broch, Robert Musil, Fritz Wortruba, Alban Berg and Alma Mahler. Canetti brings these legends to life for modern readers as never before. Central to the book is Canetti's account of his friendship with the mysterious Doctor Sonne, a mentor whose effect on his life and work was enormous.

Tongue Set Free

Remembrance of a European Childhood

AvElias Canetti

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

149 kr

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'The Tongue Set Free is so beautifully written. It begins wtih an extraordinary image, Canetti's earliest memory. He comes out of a room. A man makes him stick out his tongue; if he talks he will cut it off. Years later Canetti realises that this was his nursemaid's lover, frightening him into silence about their rendezvous. The idea of speaking as the entry into forbidden grown-up life dominates this book. When he is seven his father dies. He is propelled from childhood into adulthood, from his father to his mother, through language. In an extraordinary, cruel episode his mother forces him to learn perfect adult German in three months, to replace her husband as quickly as possible. His tongue is set free: he has won his mother, against brothers , against all lovers. It is the most intense Oedipal relationhsip I have ever seen described and Canetti describes it brilliantly. But it's all extraordinary, and all masterfully written. There are wonderful descriptions of Canetti's first oriental, medieval home in pre-World War l Bulgaria: of his later homes in Manchester, in Vienna, in Switzerland. There are unforgettable portraits. The values of Auto da Fe are given a human history and a human face' New Statesman

Torch In My Ear

AvElias Canetti

AvElias Canetti

Inbunden, Tyska, 2025

406 kr

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