1974
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Elias Canetti, winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Literature, is one of the major intellectual figures of the twentieth century. Earwitness is one of Canetti's most fascinating works. Instead of writing a novel about the modern world, he chose to portray fifty exemplars of the human species—each a paradigm of a certain kind of behavior. The characters range from "The Submitter," society's victim, through "The Fun Runner," a sort of empty jet-set figure, to such persona as "The Tablecloth Lunatic," a woman who is always angry and is obsessed with cleanliness and order, and "The Beauty-Newt," who believes only in aestheticism. Earwitness is wicked, on-target satire, and is also a very wise work of social portraiture.
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Author
Elias Canetti
Author · 21 books
Awarded the 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature "for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power." He studied in Vienna. Before World War II he moved with his wife Veza to England and stayed there for long time. Since late 1960s he lived in London and Zurich. In late 1980s he started to live in Zurich permanently. He died in 1994 in Zurich. Author of Auto-da-Fé, Party in the Blitz, Crowds and Power, and The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit
