Auto-da-Fé

Auto da F 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 F 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 F 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. New Read [ Auto-da-Fé ] by [ Elias Canetti ] – kino-fada.fr This is the world as we know it crazy as can be It strikes me as strange that the English and German title for this masterpiece are so different, and yet so fitting Canetti, bilingual, multifaceted, a master of wordplay, must have delighted in the ambiguity Die Blendung , the German title, means Deception , Blinding or Delusion , whereas Auto da F , act of faith, refers to the horrible crimes of religious fanatics during the ...Two in a two days This book was also removed from my books It was substituted with Auto Da Fe Cronache in Due Tempi a book in Italian See msg 6 for the probable explanation This one, the Canetti one, I read years ago It was a difficult, depressing and extremely bizarre book Of course I loved the book because Peter Klein the hero loves books beyond all else Kindred spirits almost view spoiler bar cats and chocolate bearing men hide spoiler The other book that mine got substitute Two in a two days This book was also removed from my books It was substituted with Auto Da Fe Cronache in Due Tempi a book in Italian Se...Read More for Mental HealthThe literal translation of the German title of Auto da Fe is The Blinding, or perhapsidiomatically, 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 Read More for Mental HealthThe literal translation of the German title of ...Almost Kien was tempted to believe in happiness, that contemptible life goal of illiterates If it came of itself, without being hunted for, if you did not hold it fast by force and treated it with a certain condescension, it was permissible to endure its presence for a few days There could be nothing better than a book about someone, or aherolike Peter Kien, that loves books Moreover, Auto da F is one of Elias Canetti s masterpiece Kien knows what he wants from life to spend his lifeAlmost Kien was tempted to believe in happiness, that contemptible life goal of illiterates If it came of itself, without being hunted for, i...A choice Numberless made within the ordinary mayhem of a day A person makes choices from the beginning to the end scheme of their life Peter Kien wants to spend the passing of his time, supported from the inheritance of his father s death, within the library of his own creation Books instead of people Facts and theories devised by those ideas argued by the greatest Sinologist in the world, himself Life is to be defined by knowledge and study While no one but his housekeeper sees or knows A choice Numberless made within the ordinary mayhem of a day A person makes choices from the beginning to the end scheme of their life Peter Kien wants to spend the passing of his time, supported from the inheritance of his father s death, within the library o...A bookseller is a king, and a king cannot be a bookseller Can one carry along a huge library in one s head The protagonist of Auto da Fsurely can.And when the abstract intellect collides with the dull routine of reality both become shattered into nothingness.This grand cynically modernistic novel easily comes among my top ten of favourites in literature.If one s consciousness is in conflict with reality what should be changed one s consciousness or reality Blindness is a weapon against t A bookseller is a king, and a king cannot be a bookseller Can one carry along a huge library ...Birinci ve nc b l mleri gayet etkileyici olan kitab n ikinci b l m nde tuza a d p ilerlemeyi b rakabilirdim Nitekim okuma s remi epey uzatt bu b l m Keza, okudu um eli y z d zg n kitap incelemelerinde de bu konuya de inilmi Fischerle nin b l m 2 b l m ve kitap uzat lman n yan nda a r da t lm D nyas z bir kafa ve kafas z bir d nya isimli iki b l m n sonundaki kafadaki d nya b l m nde bir sentez beklediyseniz benim gibi yan ld n z demektir Yine de en az ndan bu b l m Birinci ve nc b l mleri gayet etkileyici olan kitab n ikinci b l m nde tuza a d p ilerlemeyi b rakabilirdim Nitekim okuma s remi epey uzatt bu b l m Keza, okudu um eli y z d zg n kitap incelemelerinde de bu konuya de inilmi Fischerle nin b l m 2 b l m ve kitap uzat lman n yan nda a r da t lm D nyas z bir kafa ve kafas z bir d nya isimli iki b l m n sonundaki kafadaki d nya b l m nde bir sentez beklediyseniz benim gibi yan ld n z demektir Yine de en az ndan bu b l mde yazar, okuyucuyu psikolojik olarak az da olsa rahatlatm Georg Kien i...Dopo un inizio difficile in cui questo libro non decollava, mi fa piacere aver preso il volo e aver viaggiato Cercando alcune notizie sul autore, ho scoperto che il titolo originale del libro Abbagliamento , titolo che avrei mantenuto anche nella versione italiana, dato che descrive benissimo la sua essenza I protagonisti di questo libro sono abbagliati , come accecati da quello che vivono o meglio non vivono, come Th rese, la governante, un essere torbido, meschino, avido di denaro, fino Dopo un inizio difficile in cui questo libro non decollava, mi fa piacere aver preso il volo e aver viaggiato Cercando alcune notizie sul autore, ho scoperto che il titolo originale del libro Abbaglia...Na contra capa da minha edi o diz, mais ou menos, assim Auto De F considerado um dos livros fundamentais da hist ria da literatura ocidental e ler a obra de Elias Canetti essencial para compreendermos a hist ria do s culo XX.Eu, com cerca de metade lido e mais umas p ginas em diagonal digo assim J estou lixada Como Canetti me aborrece l se vai qualquer r stia de esperan a de compree...Since you are at goodreads.com, you re most likely a bookworm unless you re one of the thousands of juveniles here who pretend they like to read only to get to know people they can hook up with But how bookworm of a bookworm are you If you re at least the type who would feel sad leaving a bookstore without getting to buy a book, then reading this novel would, at times, be just like staring at a mirror You can see you here.Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981, Elias Canetti, a Ger Since you are at goodreads.com, you re most likely a bookworm unless you re one of the thousands of juveniles here who pretend they like to read only to get to know people they can hook up with But...

• English
• 05 December 2017
Elias Canetti
• Paperback
• 464 pages
• 0374518793
• Elias Canetti
• Auto-da-Fé