Elias Canetti

During the years 1951-2 KR wrote an intimate or confessional diary for the eyes of Elias Canetti , who had become her mentor.

She finished her second draft on 28 March 1953, convinced at this point that it was romantic, sentimental, and bad, and gave it to Elias Canetti to read. It was submitted to two successive publishers,...

Critically, Rhys has been lauded as a modernist writer, a feminist writer, and, more recently, a postcolonial, Caribbean, or Creole writer. Biographer Carole Angier suggests that her preoccupation with exile was common in her time...

British Book News was not receptive to the alienation effect: it complained that despite brilliant writing the story did not sufficiently involve the reader.Canetti , however, liked the pattern of interlocking pairs.

Her omnivorous reading during the last year of her degree included the major modern novelists, notably including Proust and Woolf (the darling dangerous woman who made her feel quite incapable of writing anything straight...

Murdoch began thinking about this book as soon as she finished Under the Net, but about it too she had the gravest misgivings while it was in progress.Canetti 's Auto da Fe...

It was a friend from Cardiff, the poet Dannie Abse , who introduced BR to her future husband. Rubens was an almost lifelong friend of Beryl Bainbridge . Other close friends were novelist Paul Bailey

In later years, KR had a circle of friends at Cambridge which included C. S. Lewis , Edwin Muir and his wife Willa , Elizabeth Jennings , Owen Barfield , A. C. Harwood , Tom Henn

Peter Conradi (biographer of Iris Murdoch ) writes that BR had an affair with an American, Allan Forbes (partly influenced by the philosopher and family friend Elias Canetti , who arranged for her and Forbes...

A couple of weeks later she wrote, I can't at the moment see how one recovers from such a loss. She found some solace in a three-year affair with the Bulgarian-Jewish philosopher Elias Canetti

Bayley (who was six years younger than Murdoch) appeared to her as an escape from her painful, dominated relationship with Elias Canetti . He later held one of Oxford's few Chairs as Thomas Warton...

IM published a second novel, The Flight From the Enchanter, dedicated to Elias Canetti .