Elias Canetti and the British in a European Context: Reception, Exile, Appropriation

埃利亚斯·卡内蒂(1905-1994)，1981年获得诺贝尔文学奖，是逃离纳粹迫害后定居英国的最有影响力的德语移民作家。他经久不衰的学术地位覆盖了整个欧洲，独裁政权垮台后，无论是在20世纪70年代中期的西班牙和葡萄牙，还是1989-91年之后的东欧和中欧，他对Masse und Macht[群众和权力]的迟来的翻译有力地表明了这一点。然而，卡内蒂在英国还没有得到其他领域类似杰出的难民艺术家和知识分子的认可，比如恩斯特·贡布里奇(艺术史)、尼古拉斯·佩夫斯纳(建筑史)、赫尔希·劳特帕赫特(法学)或卡尔·波普尔(哲学)，他们都获得了爵士头衔和其他荣誉。佩里·安德森在他关于定居英国的犹太难民与逃往美国的犹太难民(1968)相比的保守性格的开创性辩论中没有提到卡内蒂。丹尼尔·斯诺曼在其经典著作《希特勒时代的S》(2002年)中对卡内蒂的草率处理表明了一种更广泛的忽视，这只是卡内蒂继续坚持德语的部分原因。本研究利用苏黎世中央图书馆和金斯顿大学爱丽丝·默多克档案馆的卡内蒂Nachlass(论文)中新获得的档案材料，首次探索了卡内蒂在英国时期(1939年至1970年)的创作网络，他通过他本人或他在文学文化方面的工作的存在，反过来，英国和英国对他自己的思想和写作的影响。通过一系列面向公众和学术的成果，该项目的目的是在德语国家和盎格鲁-撒克逊世界的学术界和更广泛的受众中，将卡内蒂确立为一位混合型作家和“英国欧洲人”。

Elias Canetti (1905-1994), who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1981, is the most influential émigré German-language writer to settle in the UK after fleeing Nazi persecution. His enduring intellectual stature has a pan-European reach, as indicated forcefully by the belated translations of Masse und Macht [Crowds and Power] after the fall of the dictatorships, whether in Spain and Portugal in the mid-1970s or in Eastern and Central Europe after 1989-91. Yet Canetti has not received the recognition in the UK afforded to comparably prominent refugee artists and intellectuals in other spheres, such as Ernst Gombrich (art history), Nikolaus Pevsner (history of architecture), Hersch Lauterpacht (law), or Karl Popper (philosophy), all of whom received knighthoods among other accolades. Perry Anderson does not mention Canetti in his seminal polemic on the conservative character of Jewish refugees who settled in the UK compared with those who fled to the USA (1968). Daniel Snowman’s cursory treatment of Canetti in his classic account The Hitler Émigrés (2002) is indicative of a wider neglect, which is only partly explained by Canetti’s continued adherence to the German language. Taking advantage of newly available archival materials in Canetti’s Nachlass (papers) at the Zurich Central Library and the Iris Murdoch Archive at Kingston University, this research project explores for the first time Canetti’s creative networks during his British period (from 1939 to c.1970), his presence either through his person or his work in literary culture, and, in turn, the impact of Britain and the British on his own thinking and writing. By means of a suite of public-facing and scholarly outputs, the project thus aims to establish Canetti as a hybrid writer and 'British European' among academic and wider audiences in both the German-speaking countries and the Anglo-Saxon world.