About the writers

Elias Canetti, Nobel Prize winner for Literature in 1981, uses the broadest knowledge in his references and analyses and deals with great names such as Proust, Shakespeare, Joyce, Kafka, among others.

Winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Literature, Canetti decided shortly before his death to entrust his unpublished texts to the Zurich Library—and requested that they not be released before 2024. However, to commemorate the centenary of the author's birth, his daughter moved forward. And among those released prematurely are those that comprise this book, "On Writers."

Through aphorisms, notes, essays, and lectures—selected by Penka Angelova and Peter von Matt—Canetti explores Proust, Shakespeare, Joyce, and Kafka, among others, using erudition as a solid foundation to showcase his love of literature. For Ivo Barroso, "this book on poets, writers, and the notable figures who enriched Canetti's literary experience is an expressive display of his literary richness."