"Auto-da-Fe," 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-de-Fe" stands as a completely
original, unforgettable treatment of the modern predicament.
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