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Elias Canetti - Community Reviews back

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June's Room
June's Room rated it 13 years ago
One word.... exquisite....
The House That Books Built
The House That Books Built rated it 13 years ago
One word.... exquisite....
Kwiat Paproci
Kwiat Paproci rated it 13 years ago
Kafkowska w klimacie opowieść o ludzkich duchowych pokurczach. Powieść wielowymiarowa, bardzo projekcyjna. Ujrzałam w niej opowieść o ludziach pozbawionych duszy. Mamy zatem osoby, które mogą symbolizować: Intelekt, Siłę, Instynkt, Kompensację, Bezmyślne Prawo, Handel itd. Pesymistyczne przesłanie z...
Manny Rayner's book reviews
Manny Rayner's book reviews rated it 14 years ago
Elias Canetti, the Nobel Prize-winning author of this book, would be unhappy to learn that he's now best known as Iris Murdoch's one-time lover. I had heard that he was the prototype of the diabolical Julius King in A Fairly Honourable Defeat, and I'd also read various lurid accounts of their affair...
so many books, so little time
so many books, so little time rated it 17 years ago
A long-term dipping-into book. Recommended on a blog by Charles Lemos, at [now defunct] bythefault.com. Goes deeper and wider than Hoffer's "True Believer."Trivia: Canetti is thought to have been Iris Murdoch's model for The Black Prince.
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