Elias Canetti

Elias Canetti was born in 1905 in Ruse, in Bulgaria, into a family of Sephardic Jews whose language was Judaeo-Spanish; German, his third language after English, was the only one in which he wrote. After a childhood in Manchester, he grew up in Vienna, Zurich and Frankfurt, defended a chemistry thesis in Vienna in 1929 without ever practising, and attended almost all of Karl Kraus's lectures. He went into exile in London in 1938, devoted his years of exile there to an essay on crowds and power, published in 1960, received the Nobel Prize in 1981 and died in Zurich in 1994.

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