In a 1973 essay, this work's author claimed that it was to be the first of eight volumes of "a human comedy of lunatics", and one character in this novel prefers his catatonic schizophrenic patient "the Gorilla" to his brother. A furniture salesman called "a superior young man" has his flattery rewarded with the protagonist's obese wife undressing for him, and this novel's protagonist believes that wife has cannibalized herself. One character in this novel, who believes he will be a chess champion, deludes the protagonist into buying from four of his friends at the Theresianum while making away with the money, and George arrives to save his brother from the cellar apartment of (*) Benedikt P
In a 1973 essay, this work's author claimed that it was to be the first of eight volumes of "a human comedy of lunatics", and one character in this novel prefers his catatonic schizophrenic patient "the Gorilla" to his brother. A furniture salesman called "a superior young man" has his flattery rewarded with the protagonist's obese wife undressing for him, and this novel's protagonist believes that wife has cannibalized herself. One character in this novel, who believes he will be a chess champion, deludes the protagonist into buying from four of his friends at the Theresianum while making away with the money, and George arrives to save his brother from the cellar apartment of (*) Benedikt Pfaff. Featuring characters like the dwarf Fischerle and divided into sections like ""A Head Without a World" and "Headless World", this work sees its protagonist hallucinate that footnotes are attacking him, prompting him to set fire to his beloved library and himself. For 10 points, name this novel chronicling the life of the bibliophilic sinologist Peter Kien, a a work of Elias Canetti.
In a 1973 essay, this work's author claimed that it was to be the first of eight volumes of "a human comedy of lunatics", and one character in this novel prefers his catatonic schizophrenic patient "the Gorilla" to his brother.
{Auto}-{da}-{Fé} [or {Die Blendung} or The {Blinding}]