by Elias Canetti · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401421099
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Auto-da-Fé is a novel by Bulgarian writer Elias Canetti, published in 1935. The work, of satirical genre, tells the story of Peter Kien, a scholar absorbed in his library who is dragged into a chaotic and destructive world. Through a plot full of symbolism and imagination, Canetti criticizes intellectual alienation and the fragility of reason in the face of the irrational forces of society. The novel explores themes such as madness, power and lack of communication, becoming a reflection on the human condition and the dangers of fanaticism.
Elias Canetti was a German-language writer, known as a modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and nonfiction writer.
