Crowds and Power (German: Masse und Macht) is a 1960 book by Elias Canetti, dealing with the dynamics of crowds and "packs" and the question of how and why crowds obey power of rulers. Canetti draws a parallel between ruling and paranoia. Also, the...
Allegorical character typings by the European philosopher and litterateur best known for Crowds and Power and the novel Auto-da-F≤. For instance: ""The blind man is not blind by birth, but he became blind with little effort. He has a camera,...
No sirve de nada; uno puede cantarse coros a sí mismo, admirar a caníbales, estar doscientos años bajando por el tronco de un árbol al que antes había trepado; uno puede encerrar al mes como a un loco, en inofensivas...
LAS VOCES DE MARRAKESH Elias Canetti traducción y prólogo de José Francisco Yvars En 1954 Elias Canetti viajó a Marrakesh; de sus incursiones por los barrios árabe y judío de la ciudad recogió voces, olores, gestos...
From one of the preeminent intellectual figures of the twentieth century, a highly personal testimonial of what Canetti himself chooses to term "notations," bits and pieces: notes, aphorisms, fragments. Taken together, they present an awesomely...
Winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Literature, Elias Canetti uncovers the secret life hidden beneath Marrakesh’s bewildering array of voices, gestures and faces. In a series of sharply etched scenes, he portrays the languages and cultures of the...