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Reviewed on August 15, 2005
After fleeing Austria and the Nazi persecution of the Jews in 1939, Bulgarian-born writer Elias Canetti (1905-94) lived out the remainder of his life in England. Best known for the novel Auto-da-Fe and the sociological study Crowds and Power , Canetti also published three memoirs and, in 1981, won the Nobel Prize in literature. In the current work, which Canetti wrote at age 85, he attempts to reconcile his feelings about England and the British. He fault...Log In or Sign Up to Read More