This author described how his father died after ac
This author described how his father died after accusing his mother of having had an affair with a health spa doctor with whom she spoke in German. When a character created by this author hears his new wife say "Children last" to chastise children trying to take a seat on a streetcar, he misunderstands her to be stating that having children is the last thing she's thinking of. That book by him opens with a man teaching the Chinese characters for Mencius' name to a nine-year-old boy who claims to prefer (*) books to candies. This author's earliest memory was of a man threatening to cut out his tongue if he revealed that he was sleeping with this author's nanny. The protagonist of his only novel is kicked out of his home by his housekeeper- turned wife, Therese, and is a sinologist named Peter Kein, who sets fire to his precious library. This author's trilogy of memoirs includes The Play of the Eyes and The Tongue Set Free. For 10 points, name this author of the novel Auto-da-Fé, a Bulgarian Nobel laureate.
This author described how his father died after accusing his mother of having had an affair with a health spa doctor with whom she spoke in German.
Elias Canetti