Autodafe (A Continuum book),Used

Autodafe (A Continuum book),Used

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AutodaF (orig. Die Blendung, 'The Blinding') is a novel by Elias Canetti. The title of the English translation by C.V. Wedgwood ('46) refers to the Inquisition burning heretics. The book was banned by the Nazis & didn't become widely known until after the global success of Crowds & Power ('60). The protagonist is Peter Kien, a middleaged philologist. He was the owner of the most important private library in the whole of the city. He carried a minute portion of it with him wherever he went. His passion for it, the only one which he had permitted himself during a life of austere & exacting study, moved him to take special precautions. Books, even bad ones, tempted him easily into making a purchase. Fortunately, the great number of the book shops didn't open until after eight o'clock. Kien is absorbed in his studies of Chinese & fears social & physical contact, but he's pressured into marrying his ignorant housekeeper, Therese Krummholz, who robs him with the help of Benedikt Pfaff, the protofascist apartment manager. Kien descends to the depths of society as his brother tries in vain to cure him, reaching an apocalyptic end amid his books.

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