This book's main character had "begun to doubt his reason" after he strangled four canaries and cut off his own little finger when he is terrorized by the color blue.
This book's main character had "begun to doubt his reason" after he strangled four canaries and cut off his own little finger when he is terrorized by the color blue. In this novel's first chapter, "The Morning Walk," the protagonist is offended that a passerby gives a blind beggar a button, prompting him to give all of his money to the beggar.  Its protagonist is haunted by a dream in which Mexican priests disguised as jaguars sacrifice him in its first section "A Head without a World." In this novel, the protagonist is horrified when his wife sells his most valuable possessions at the Theresanium, which is run by a chess-playing dwarf named Fischerle. It largely takes place in a high-rise apartment where the protagonist rouses his books to battle andis married to a maid named Therese Krumbholz, who liquidates his library. For 10 points, theSinologist Pieter Kien appears in what novel by Elias Canetti?
This book's main character had "begun to doubt his reason" after he strangled four canaries and cut off his own little finger when he is terrorized by the color blue.
Auto-da-FÃ© [or Die Blendung or Tower of Babel according to one bonkers translation]