I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole: an Elias Canetti reader

part I. Notes and memoirs. from Notes from Hampstead : The writer's notes, 1954-1971 ; from The tongue set free, part I : "Ruschuk, 1905-1911" ; from Notes from Hampstead ; from The tongue set free, part II : "Manchester, 1911-1913"

part II. Auto-da-fé. from Auto-da-fé, part I : "A head without a world" ; from Notes from Hampstead ; from Auto-da-fé, part II : "Headless world"

part III. Memoirs and senses. from The torch in my ear, part II ; "Storm and compulsion" (Vienna, 1924-1925) ; from Earwitness : fifty characters ; from The play of the eyes, parts III and IV : "Chance" and "Grinzing" ; from The voices of Marrakesh : a record of a visit

part IV. Crowds and power. from The torch in my ear, part III : "The school of hearing" (Vienna, 1926-1928) ; from Crowds and power : "The crowd" ; from Crowds and power : "The entrails of power" ; from Crowds and power : "The survivor" ; from The human province, The secret heart of the clock, and The agony of flies : notes, 1942-1993

part V. Death and transformation."The profession of the poet" ; from Das Buch gegen Tod = The book against death