Elias Canetti (; Bulgarian: Елиас Канети; 25 July 1905 – 14 August 1994) was a German-language author, born in Ruse, Bulgaria to a merchant family. They moved to Manchester, England, but his father died in 1912, and his mother took her three sons back to the continent. They settled in Vienna.
Canetti moved to England in 1938 after the Anschluss to escape Nazi persecution. He became a British citizen in 1952. He is known as a modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981, "for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power". He is noted for his non-fiction book Crowds and Power, among other works.
Wien i 30?erne: I sit tredje og afsluttende erindringsbind, Øjenspillet, er Elias Canetti nu ved at udvikle sig til en selvbevidst forfatter, der arbejder disciplineret og omgås nogle af Europas største kulturpersonligheder: Hermann Broch, Robert Musil, Alban Berg m.fl. og ikke mindst skulptøren Fritz Wotruba, der bliver en slags tvilling for Elias. Undervejs mod 1937 mærker man nazismen som en stadig større trussel under overfladen.
Elias? mange møder skildres med skånselsløs præcision - der er syre og ætsen, men også kærlighed og respekt i beskrivelsen af de mange personer i bogen. En lidenskabelig kærlighed til Mahlers datter, Anna, spiller en vigtig rolle, men Elias beslutter sig til at gifte sig med sin Veza fra forrige bind. Det fører til moderens bandlysning af ham indtil hendes død, der afslutter erindringstrilogien.
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