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lyricism in "A peripheral exile ': Elias Canetti

"Pillars of Society" by G . Grosz, 1926

"Today I have been reading Machiavelli thoroughly. For the first time really captivated me. I read it coolly and little bitterness. I am struck to investigate the power the same way I study the masses. It addresses its subject with complete impartiality, his ideas come from his personal experience with rulers and their readings. The same is true for me, mutatis mutandis. Like any man of our time, I had experiences with the most diverse masses , and by reading endless attempt to get an idea of \u200b\u200bthe masses remote and bygone. I have to read much more than himself, his past is ancient Rome especially, mine is any past from which something is known. I, however, we read a similar way: dispersed and concentrated at a time, and feeling flow of similar phenomena everywhere. With respect to the mass itself, I've lost my initial prejudices, and it's not for me neither good nor bad, but there is, and blindness in which until now have lived in relation to it I find it intolerable. My relationship with Machiavelli would be pure if I'm not too interested in the study of power, here crossed my path and yours in a more intimate and intricate. The power remains for me an absolute evil and as such I can only take care of it. Sometimes my hostility numb, like when I read Machiavelli for example, but is only a slight drowsiness, which I wake up very comfortable.

I have found my powerful in the pantheon of the glorified history. The most often cited one such name, I found it harder to approach him. Distrust the posthumous fame rests on facts that occurred long ago, and what is more suspicious of success. I myself, like any other, I can examine the works of great men that exist as text. But what could review past events ever closer? There is only the consideration of opinions about facts, and I before they are not I flinch, I offer no credit or respect. "

Hampstead. Apuntes rescued 1954-1971.

Elias Canetti. Anaya & Mario Muchnik

Notes after the title is hidden rescued a "summa" consciously chosen and organized the thought of Elias Canetti. These reflections focus on the different cultures of the world to investigate in human behavior. Canetti engages in dialogue with writers of different times: Aristotle, Plato and Plutarch, Dante, Cervantes, Stendhal, Lichtenberg, and Gogol, Kafka and Pavese these Notes, thoughts or intense and profound aphorisms with touches of clarity.

"The Sephardic Canetti in cosmic void between languages \u200b\u200band countries that want as only half yours."

Elias Canetti (1905-1994) , Bulgarian Sephardic origin (who wanted to be remembered as "an old English") and British spent much of his life in England, Vienna, Germany and Zurich. In 1981 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Storyteller, playwright and essayist, is author of one great novel, Auto faith 1936, (meaning, the literal translation of the German title of "obfuscation") . This work presents the relationship between scholarship and insanity personified in a sage among his books locked up dying just after setting fire to his library. Other featured titles are Crowds and Power (anthropological essay, 1960), a classic thought twentieth century, the concept of "mass" connected to power, as opposed to the Freudian concept of the primitive state of man, The other process Kafka (essay, 1969), awareness of words (1975) or acquitted Language (1977). But the author is known especially for his three volumes of autobiography and notebooks in six books (near aphorisms fantastic short story, sketches psychological ...): Notes (1948), All this admiration dilapidated (1960), The province of man (1972), The secret heart clock (1985), The torment of flies (1992) and From Hampstead .

Major Elias Canetti obsessions revolve around two main themes interrelationship among themselves, the issue of "mass and power, and the theme of death. In one of his notes we read: " You're not obsessed with the mass. No longer do you insist on inventing recipes for good behavior and welfare.'re More obsessed than ever with the death. The mass death has absorbed you to the ground. Your own death is no more than indifferent. It is absolutely clear that it is only a matter of death in general. " opposite of death is survival" time of survival, "which, according to Canetti," the moment of power "(1).

The dual role of intelligence as brightness paralyzing and destructive threat, sought faith in Auto , is another major concern for the author: "Writing constantly questioned canettiana physical annihilation, in a deeper way, annihilation is responsible for property rights, including that from high culture (2)

Siegfried Nevenhauesen

"Men only think dodging!" Of "Conversations of Goethe ." Hampstead.

" Elias Canetti was one of the great travelers of our time. Dweller in the vicinity of the twentieth century witnessed the atrocities of Nazism, conversion of humans in number by the extermination of sensation the end of the world that took the survivors of Hiroshima ... Canetti (the great survivor) reminds us that somehow we sobrevievientes of all those who have died in the past. The survivor is one who wonders about the fate of the dead and that seems to inhabit this delicate border between life and death that only the great poets have explored " (3). His desire to remain after death is also evident after this statement: "Leave behind you a puzzle or surely die." Canetti perhaps we have left more of an enigma in those 134 boxes of papers and letters deposited in Zurich, which may not be open until 2024.

What is decisive is KNOW THE SIDE "

Canetti

placed the subject before the court oppressive modernity. Cornered by the single thought and power of all that is central, the weak, the rebel, the poet, the witness has a final strategy: the side hop (4). The author The torment of flies defined laterality in human knowledge: " As it grows, changes shape knowledge. There is no uniformity in the true knowledge. All jumps are made sideways as horse jumps in chess. What unfolds in a straight line and is detectable is irrelevant. What matters is knowing how twisted, especially lateral "(4). clear example of these statements is the Auto protagonist of faith, a China expert narcissistic reality is isolated from , sinking into self-destruction by searching only the abstraction theory. As a result falls into madness and burns with his books in the great fire metaphor for their annihilation.

"POETIC ART SIDE"

Canetti In this phrase, "lateral" means go beyond, in a broad sense of the words culture and literature. to Claudio Magris, Elias Canetti is "the last survivor of Central European culture, in the interwar period created a literature " lateral (marginal, others), but strictly rationalist (due to their scientific training) to show contemporary delusion " .

Canetti literature as is " ... Art of the Transfiguration, literature is a bet against death. The ethical role of writing is to take responsibility for the imagined life in its transience and pain with complete mercy. In the pure technical, literature breathes life into the mud that serves as raw material. " C anetti in its conception of reality is still much to Kafka, the writer he most admired, in his ethics of writing about Tolstoy, though he rejects the religious sense of the writer seemed "megalomaniac and archaic" (4).

"Stendhal was never my Bible, but has been among the writers, my savior man ... I have never opened a book of his without feeling light and airy. It was never my law. But my (...) But he was released Cervantes, Gogol, Dostoevsky and Büchner I would not be anything: a spirit without fire and sharp edges. "

NOTES

(1) " Elias Canetti, a thinker out of place." Agapito Maestre, in "Political Breviary" (2) "Elias Canetti: lateral rider, Juan Villoro (3)" Elias Canetti, survivor , Mauricio Molina. (4) "Elias Canetti: Side Rider", by John Villoro.

Bibliography: Literary History Universal , Martin de Riquer and José María Valverde, Editorial Planeta. Hampstead, 1954-1971 Notes rescued, Anaya & Mario Muchnik. The power of the Word ( www.epdlp.com ).

Articles: "World premiere of an unpublished Canetti," Winston Manrique Sabogal, El País (05/04/2010); http://www.elpais.com/ " Canetti against privacy "and" Elias Canetti in brief ", both of LF Moreno Claros. Http://www.elcultural.es/ "Notes Elias Canetti (1942-1993). Trad. J. José del Solar. Ohlrich G., G. Dieterich and B. Galán. Galaxia Gutenberg / Círculo readership; http://www.diarioperfil.com.ar/ : "Elias Canetti: lateral rider, Juan Villoro.