Description
Nobel Prize winner Elias Canetti’s sensational memoir: a frank, acerbic, and cranky way his years of British exile.
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
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