In 'The Play Of The Eyes', Elias Canetti, Nobel Prize winner, towering intellectual figure and polymath, gives us his third volume of autobiography.
This third volume is set in Vienna between 1931 and 1937: years when the European catastrophe, already clear to anyone with eyes to see, was approaching its inevitable and tragic climax. To this great intellectual and spiritual self-portrait Canetti adds wonderful portraits of his friends and rivals: Herman Broch, Robert Musil, Fritz Wortruba. Canetti brings these legends to life for modern readers as never before. Central to the book is the account of his friendship with the mysterious Doctor Sonne, a mentor whose effect on his life and work was enormous.
