Canetti

American  

[kuh-net-ee, kah-] / kəˈnɛt i, kɑ- /

noun

1. Elias, 1905–94, Bulgarian-born novelist and playwright: Nobel Prize 1981.

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Canetti British  

/ kəˈnɛtɪ /

noun

1. Elias. 1905–94, British novelist and writer, born in Bulgaria, who usually wrote in German. His works include the novel Auto da Fé (1935). Nobel prize for literature 1981

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Example Sentences

Nurit Canetti, chair of the Union of Journalists in Israel, said media coverage has been “responsible and reliable.”

From Seattle Times

In preparation for the interview, Ginzburg had read Elias Canetti’s classic work Auto-da-Fé, written eight years before Bobby was born.

From Literature

I think of the chilling “invented memory” that gives shape to “The Tongue Set Free,” by Elias Canetti.

From New York Times

Elias Canetti, writing about Franz Kafka, made the observation that though “life’s horror” is never out of sight, “most people notice it only on occasion.”

From Los Angeles Times

"It is the first death which infects everyone with the feeling of being threatened," wrote Elias Canetti, a Bulgarian refugee from Nazi persecution, in "Crowds and Power":

From Salon