Chess plays a prominent role in this novel, particularly the competitions at a bar called "Ideal Heaven."
While writing this novel, its author plastered copies of the Isenheim Altarpiece all over his apartment. Chess plays a prominent role in this novel, particularly the competitions at a bar called "Ideal Heaven." A friend from the author's time as a graduate student in chemistry may have inspired the sardonic chess-playing dwarf Fischerele. The hero's brother Georges is a psychiatrist who is unable to help his him. The novel's action is set in motion by Benedikt Pfaff, who cares for the protagonist's apartment, and the housekeeper Therese Krummholz, who convinces the protagonist to marry her. After being thrown out of his apartment, which is home to a library of 25,000 books, the main character begins a descent into madness. FTP, name this work about sinologist Peter Kien, the only novel written by Elias Canetti.
While writing this novel, its author plastered copies of the Isenheim Altarpiece all over his apartment.
Auto-da-F?(or Die Blendung)