Canetti

[Joshua T]

Bruno recommends

>e. canetti, die blendung (don't know english translation, it's a rather
>rarly used noun (in german) for the following kind of situation: you look
>into a bright light, the sun or so, (or a nice chic) and afterwards you're
>blind; or maybe if someone burns out your eyes, something this way)
>
>i don't know if the books written in german have been translated to english.
>but if so, you should read "die blendung". that's maybe the BEST book EVER
>written (seriously....)

Instead of "Bedazzled" (a 1967 Peter Cook-Dudley Moore movie) or "Blinded
by the Light" (a 198O Kristy McNichol TV-movie and, I guess, a Bruce
Springsteen song), it's called _Auto-da-Fe_ in English (and in an early
American edition _Tower of Babel_), trans. by C. V. Wedgwood, 1946.  Gosh,
that seems to be Cicely Veronica Wedgwood, author of several
seventeenth-century histories.
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/3203/Wedgwood.html
http://nobel.sdsc.edu/laureates/literature-1981-1-cv.html

Josh