Elias Canetti vs. Virginia Woolf
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Elias Canetti
1905 – 1994
Literature
United Kingdom
Elias Canetti was a German-language writer, known as a modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and nonfiction writer.
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"I noticed in the front row a small, very pale, almost white man, old, tremendously alert, old in the only way I love old age, namely more alive for all the year…"
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Virginia Woolf
1882 – 1941
Literature
United Kingdom
Bloomsbury Group
Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer and one of the most influential 20th-century modernist authors. She helped to pioneer the use of stream of consciousness narration as a literary device.
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"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."
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Connections
Virginia Woolf was influenced by Elias Canetti
Shared era: 1905 – 1941
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