New Left Review I/15, May-June 1962

Raymond Williams

Fiction and Delusion

A note on Auto—da—Fé; Elias Canetti; Jonathan Cape, 15/-

Elias Canetti’s novel Die Blendung (1935) was translated into English by C. V. Wedgwood and, under the title of Auto-da-Fé, was first published here in 1946. Reading it then, I was very deeply impressed, and certain things in it have stayed clearly in my mind. Now that it has been reissued, I find myself having to go back over what has happened to myself in the intervening years, in the process of looking again at a work which was then so important to me.

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