Edgar Allan Poe and Elias Canetti: illuminating the sources of terror.[Critical essay]

From: The Southern Literary Journal | Date: March 22, 2005| Author: Folks, Jeffrey J. | Copyright information

In The Torch in My Ear, the second volume of his four-volume autobiography, Elias Canetti recounts an episode from his university days in which he passed an uneasy morning in chemistry laboratory with a fellow student, Eva Reichmann: "I talked about a book I had started reading the day before: Poe's tales. She didn't know them, and I told her about one, 'The Telltale Heart,' which had really terrified me. ... I tried to free myself of this terror by repeating the story to her" (191...

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