Party in the Blitz

Reviews

"This is the fourth and final volume of Elias Canetti’s memoirs. Its predecessors…were poised, richly detailed and slightly dull; Party in the Blitz, however, is chaotic…and horribly fascinating." — John Banville, The Nation

"Before there was the mysterious W. G. Sebald, there was the even more mysterious Elias Canetti." — Clive James, The New York Times Book Review

"Canetti invites—indeed, compels—judgment. His exacting presence honors literature." — George Steiner, The New Yorker

"Canetti is merciless." — Robert Leiter, Jewish Exponent

"His work eloquently defends tension, exertion, moral and amoral seriousness." — Susan Sontag

"Nothing ever was pleasant about Canetti. And nothing ever is pleasant about great literature….we should have it no other way." — Joshua Cohen, The Forward

"Whether one agrees with Canetti or not, his eloquently sustained loathing is bracing stuff." — Publishers Weekly

"[Canetti] can be as shrewd as Lichtenberg or La Rochefoucauld with an apt and concisely phrased insight." — Michael Dirda, Washington Post

"[Gives] the reader a superb sense of what day-to-day life was like during the Battle of Britain." — Marjorie Perloff, Bookforum