Download or read book The End of Modernism[ written by William Collins Donahue and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobel laureate Elias Canetti wrote his novel Auto-da-F©(Die Blendung) when he and the twentieth century were still quite young. Rooted in the cultural crises of the Weimar period, Auto-da-F© first received critical acclaim abroad--in