num_pages: 336
description: This is the third volume of Elias Canetti's autobiography, following The Tongue Set Free and The Torch in My Ear. It is set in Vienna between 1931 and 1937, at a time when the European catastrophe was already clear to anyone with eyes to see. The book is both a portrait of its time and an intellectual and spiritual autobiography. Canetti describes his relationships with Herman Broch, Robert Musil, Fritz Wortruba, the composer Alban Berg, and Alma Mahler.
language: English
title: The Play of the Eyes
titlecomplete: The Play of the Eyes
genres: Biography, Bulgaria, German Literature, Nonfiction, Memoir, Jewish, Literature, Autobiography, Nobel Prize, 20th Century
ratings_count: 351
places: Vienna, Austria
series: The Memoir Trilogy
publisher: Granta