This author profiled 50 character types, such as "The Horse-Dark Woman" and "The Syllable-Pure Woman" in his study Earwitness. His affair with Iris Murdoch is documented in the last volume of his memoirs, Party in the Blitz. 
This author profiled 50 character types, such as "The Horse-Dark Woman" and "The Syllable-Pure Woman" in his study Earwitness. His affair with Iris Murdoch is documented in the last volume of his memoirs, Party in the Blitz. A non-fiction work by this writer discusses the merits of Josephus's scheme to outlive a death pact and suggests that the "act of survival" is power. His only novel features a cunning chess-champion dwarf named Fischerle; the protagonist of that book is a Sinologist who marries his housekeeper Therese in the belief that she'll protect his massive library. He wrote a work that examines Judge Schreber and discusses why mobs tend to follow dictators and despots. For 10 points, name this Bulgarian-born writer who wrote the novel Auto-Da-Fe and the study Crowds and Power.
This author profiled 50 character types, such as "The Horse-Dark Woman" and "The Syllable-Pure Woman" in his study Earwitness.
Elias Canetti