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Amazing mind/ life/book. This covers the early years of Canetti- until about age 30- ending before World War II. But what it covers, and how it does! The development of a consciousness, observing his parents, mostly mother, himself, others, the world through each of these and the world through books. His struggles to engage and observe, to analyze his world is presented so honestly, and in such a wonderfully flawed way. He is always missing the mark , then slowly, subtly, coming back to himself and his flaws and his flawed vision, and then his writing about it. There is the intellectual gossip angle as well- a European People magazine of a different time- when the stars were not Kardashians but Mahler, Thomas Mann, Brecht, Musil, and primarily, Karl Kraus.
Living in this world, this depiction of this world, was / is needed for me.