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Auto-da-Fé, Elias Canetti's only work of fiction, is a staggering achievement that puts him squarely in the ranks of major European writers such as Robert Musil and Hermann Broch. It is the story of Peter Kien, a scholarly recluse who lives among and for his great library. The destruction of Kien through the instrument of the illiterate, brutish housekeeper he marries constitutes the plot of the book. The best writers of our time have been concerned with the horror of the modern world--one thinks of Kafka, to whom Canetti has often been compared. But Auto-da-Fé stands as a completely original, unforgettable treatment of the modern predicament.
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Auto da Fé is the story of Peter Kien, a distinguished, reclusive Sinologist living in Germany between the wars. With masterly precision, Canetti builds up the elements in Kien himself, and his personal relationships, which will lead to his destruction.
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"Savage, subtle, beautifully mysterious--one of the few great novels of the century." - Iris Murdoch
"A strange, eloquent and terrifying book." - Philip Toynbee
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- PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux
- Publication date1984
- ISBN 10 0374518793
- ISBN 13 9780374518790
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages472
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