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Original Title:	Die Blendung
ISBN:	0374518793 (ISBN13: 9780374518790)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Vienna(Austria)

Auto-da-Fé

Elias Canetti

Paperback | Pages: 464 pages

Rating: 4.06 | 4536 Users | 382 Reviews

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"Auto-da-Fé" is the story of Peter Kien, a distinguished, reclusive sinologist living in Vienna 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.

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Title	:	Auto-da-Fé
Author	:	Elias Canetti
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 464 pages
Published	:	December 1st 1984 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (first published 1935)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. European Literature. German Literature. Literature

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Ratings: 4.06 From 4536 Users | 382 Reviews

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Dropped on p.175. Mounting tedium and irritation.

Move over "The Tin Drum"! "Auto da Fé" is my new favorite "dark- bizaare- extremely funny- cruel- stupendous" kind of read masterpiece!!!This work by Canetti which deservedly added to my "best of the best" book list, is one of the most beautifully (not to mention the haughtiest) written works of fiction I've ever read!!!Not since reading "Ulysses" did I experience "moments of duress" reading a weighty tome... The only difference is that I gave myself a second chance to finish (and enjoy, of

This book is bizarre. Its like a Grimms fairy tale with insane characters, or a cautionary tale with a moral thats not a moral because its so nihilistic. This, Canetti seems to be saying, is what happens if an intellectual dissociates from the real world and hears no voice other than his own. He becomes dogmatic and he falls victim to the venality of the ignorant. Its sobering reading.To see my review (more of a summary really, as best I understood the book) please visit

If I wasn't cautioned by acts of a psychologist in this book trying to read the nature of intellectual in his theories; I could be disturbed to think that Canetti was only 26 when he wrote this masterpiece. There are books that are cynical about humanity and others that talk about how low humanity can fall. However, this book presents an entirely new level of the disturbing picture of humanity. Canetti offers no hope for humanity in here. Every single one of the characters are motivated by base

Read More for Mental HealthThe literal translation of the German title of Auto da Fe is The Blinding, or perhaps more idiomatically, The Deception. The question this latter raises is: Who is deceiving whom? The unrelenting comic irony suggests that everyone is deceiving not only everyone else, but also themselves. All the characters are mad to some degree, and Kafkaesque to the extent that they emerge out of a somewhat hostile, vaguely Eastern European world in which they are striving to survive

I can't think of a novel that I have abandoned with a worse impression of the author. Cannetti was reportedly a royal prick, a backstabbing, misogynistic troll, and nothing in the first pages this book does anything to dispel any of it. Maybe I'll get around to it, but I doubt it - it's too unpleasant.

A man loves his library.In his opinion books are better than men.How it can be denied reading this novel?Auto-da-fe is like a cage: it doesn't give you any possibility of escape, it hurts you. It's like an abyss in which all that begins ironically becomes dramatic.