Summary: In his essays and speeches, Elias Canetti engaged extensively with the arts. He explored literature from Hebel to Kafka, Proust, and Joyce, as well as painting and repeatedly, theater. His famous conversation with Theodor W. Adorno and numerous interviews regarding his own biography and contemporary history illustrate how Canetti must have influenced the dialogue. With this volume, which gathers many previously unpublished works, the complete 10-volume edition of his works is now available.

About the author: Elias Canetti was born in 1905 in Ruse, Bulgaria, and grew up in Manchester, Zurich, Frankfurt, and Vienna. In 1929, he earned his doctorate in natural sciences in Vienna. The manuscript of his novel "Auto-da-Fé" was completed in 1930/31 and published in 1935. In 1938, Canetti emigrated to London, where he began anthropological and socio-historical studies on mass and power (1960). From the 1970s onward, he primarily lived in Switzerland and gained further fame with his plays, the "Notebooks," and autobiographical books, including "The Tongue Set Free." He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981. He died in Zurich in 1994.