Edge of Irony by Marjorie Perloff

Edge of Irony by Marjorie Perloff

Author:Marjorie Perloff [Perloff, Marjorie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780226328492
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2016-04-07T00:00:00+00:00


Figure 20. Elias Canetti’s birthplace, Ruse, Bulgaria, Slavianska Street 12 (built 1902). Wikimedia Commons. Photograph: Trygve W. Nodeland (September 2009).

Prior to World War II, Bulgaria was home to forty-eight thousand Jews. The war—in which this Danube satellite of the Habsburg Empire declared its Nazi allegiance—was to change all that. By 1965 only fifty-one hundred Jews still lived in Bulgaria: the world Canetti grew up in had virtually disappeared. But for him, as we soon learn, it had already collapsed much earlier.



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