Writing about Elias Canetti, Susan Sontag remarked that "the
notebook is the perfect literary form for the eternal student,
someone who has no subject or, rather, whose subject is
'everything.'" Notes from Hampstead confirms this. It is a map of
the late Nobel laureate's thinking, a triumphant compendium of
aphoristic, enigmatic, and expository writings covering a
characteristically diverse range of subjects: the significance of
mythology and ethnicity, the nature of creativity, the
extraordinary hold violence has on the twentieth century, literary
history (we learn of his affection for Cervantes, Stendhal, and
Gogol, and of his adoration of Kafka), and, always, there is a
violent quarrel with death.
Canetti draws on the troubled period following the death of his
wife and the publication of his masterwork of social theory, Crowds
and Power. An ambivalent interest in spiritualism also
characterizes the collection: Canetti's conversations with Jesuits
and Indian gurus and his readings of Greek, Hebrew, and primitive
myths give a kaleidoscopic view of the uses and abuses of
religions. Wide-ranging in form and content, the book is suffused
with Canetti's uncommon intelligence, his rage at the defects of
the spirit, and an unquenchable thirst for elusive truths.
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