Wall Street Journal: ‘The Book Against Death’ Review: Elias Canetti’s Ethics of Resistance
- #news
- #headline
Figure timeline
Elias Canetti
Elias Canetti was a German-language writer, known as a modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and nonfiction writer.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
culture · German-language author (1905–1994) · writer · aphorist · playwright · chemist · essayist · novelist · psychologist · philosopher · also Elias Canetti, Elías Canetti, Canetti
Born 25 July 1905 · Died 14 August 1994 · Q80064
33 published statements · 0 followers
See & hear
Photos & media
5 photos
Media from Wikimedia Commons, hotlinked at the source under its own licence — see each file for author and terms.
Live now
In the news
Pulling headlines from trusted outlets — this usually takes a few seconds
Checking the wires…
Feed scan
These are live links, not archived citations — they only join the timeline once a collect run verifies and archives them.
Live pulse
Recent highlights
Most recent outstanding titles, awards, and quotes
- Award
- Title
2024· 1 entry
2022· 1 entry
Publishers Weekly: Books by Elias Canetti and Complete Book Reviews
- #news
- #headline
2021· 1 entry
Harper's Magazine: Elias Canetti
- #news
- #headline
2015· 1 entry
Novinite: Monument to Elias Canetti Unveiled in Bulgaria's Ruse
- #news
- #headline
2007· 1 entry
Harper's Magazine: Elias Canetti, Pat Tillman, and the First Death in War
- #news
- #headline
2003· 1 entry
Canetti, who demanded submission from women, later mercilessly skewered Murdoch in his posthumous memoir Party im Blitz (2003).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #life
- #personal-life
1994· 3 entries
Died 1994-08-14.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #death
“Mądrość człowieka zależy od równowagi między wiedzą a niewiedzą. Wiedza nie powinna zubażać niewiedzy. Wraz z każdą odpowiedzią powinno budzić się pytanie, odległe i pozornie z nią nie związane, które dotąd drzemało skulone. Ten, kto ma wiele odpowiedzi, powinien mieć jeszcze więcej pytań.”
- #wikiquote
- #saying
- #undated
- #lang:pl
“Hitler müßte jetzt als Jude weiterleben. (niem.)”
- #wikiquote
- #saying
- #undated
- #lang:pl
1985· 1 entry
Awarded honorary citizen of Vienna (1985).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
1981· 5 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power.
- #nobel
- #award
- #honour
Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (1981).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
Awarded Franz Kafka Prize (1981).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
Awarded Franz-Kafka-Preis (1981).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
"for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power"
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
- #corroborated
- #www.nobelprize.org
1980· 1 entry
Awarded Johann-Peter-Hebel-Preis (1980).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
1979· 1 entry
Awarded Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order (1979).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
1977· 1 entry
Awarded Gottfried-Keller-Preis (1977).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
1975· 3 entries
Awarded Franz Nabl Prize (1975).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
Awarded Nelly Sachs Prize (1975).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
Canetti was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Manchester and another one from LMU Munich, in 1976
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1972· 2 entries
Awarded Georg Büchner Prize (1972).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
Awarded Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (1972).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
1969· 1 entry
Awarded Literature Award of the Bavarian Academy of the Fine Arts (1969).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
1967· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Austrian State Prize for Literature (1967).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
1966· 1 entry
Awarded City of Vienna Literature Prize (1966).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
1963· 1 entry
Canetti married Hera Buschor (1933–1988), with whom he had a daughter, Johanna, in 1972
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1952· 1 entry
Despite being a German-language writer, Canetti settled in Britain until the 1970s, receiving British citizenship in 1952.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #life
- #personal-life
1938· 1 entry
After the Anschluss with Germany, the Canettis moved to London
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1934· 1 entry
In Vienna he married Veza (Venetiana) Taubner-Calderon (1897–1963), who acted as his muse and devoted literary assistant
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1916· 1 entry
He also had a close relationship with writer Frieda Benedikt (1916–1953; pseudonym Anna Sebastian), whom Canetti had already met in Vienna in 1936.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #life
- #personal-life
1905· 2 entries
Born 1905-07-25.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #birth
To businessman Jacques Canetti and Mathilde (née Arditti) in Ruse, a city on the Danube in Bulgaria
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event