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. 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