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內容簡介 Nobel Prize winner Elias Canetti�s sensational memoir: a frank, acerbic, and cranky way his years of British exile. Elias Canetti originally intended Party in the Blitz to capture an image of his time in post-war London. Well known throughout Europe, Canetti scorned British intellectuals who weren�t familiar with his work. By force of will alone he accumulated English followers, but not before being christened �the godmonster of Hampstead.� Canetti�s memories of various people in his social circle are brief and scathing brimstone sketches. T.S. Eliot, Iris Murdoch, Wittgenstein, Herbert Read, Bertrand Russell�Canetti rakes them all over the coals. To Canetti, T.S. Eliot was nothing more than an American emigrant trying desperately to act British, and Canetti�s portrayal of Iris Murdoch, with whom he had an affair, is nothing short of brutal. Michael Hofmann�s translation pulls no punches, delivering the goods on Canetti�s searing injection: �when you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.�
