Elias Canetti: poet and intellectual / Dagmar Barnouw -- Auto-da-Fé / Hermann Hesse -- Auto-da-Fé / Hans Magnus Enzensberger -- The world can no longer be depicted as in earlier novels / Elias Canetti, in conversation with Manfred Durzak -- Auto da fé: reading misreading in Elias Canetti's Die Blendung / Patrick O'Neill -- The uses of parody: Gogol, Stendhal, and Kafka in Canetti's Auto-da-Fé / Harriet Murphy -- The acoustic mask: toward a theory of drama / Elias Canetti, in conversation with Manfred Durzak -- The power and powerlessness of the earwitness: the dramatic in Canetti's early plays / Peter Laemmle -- Utopian dissent: Canetti's dramatic fictions / Dagmar Barnouw -- Crowds and power / Elias Canetti and Theodor W. Adorno, in conversation -- Mass, might and myth / Iris Murdoch -- Canetti as anthropologist / Ritchie Robertson -- Destiny's herald: Elias Canetti's crowds and power and its continuing influence / Hansjakob Werlen -- At the edge of silence: "mystery" in the work of Elias Canetti / Gerhard Melzer -- The dignity of difference: self and other in Elias Canetti's Voices of Marrakesh / Anne Fuchs -- The only sentence and its sole possessor: the symbolic power of Elias Canetti / Gerhard Melzer -- The individual and his literature: on Elias Canetti's conception of the writer / Bernd Witte -- Canetti's later work / J.P. Stern -- A passion for people: Elias Canetti's autobiography and its implications for exile studies / Harriet Murphy -- "Fissures in the monument": reassessing Elias Canetti's autobiographical works / Friederike Eigler -- The writer in hiding / Claudio Magris.