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From: Eva Category: Books Date: 29 August 2006 Time: 02:34 PM Review: One of my favourite books. Canetti pulls the reader in straight away with an innocent conversation between a scholar and a young boy in front of a bookshop. As the boy runs off to school the tone suddenly goes sideways as Peter Kien, the scholar and protagonist, weighs up whether he was rash to waste his time talking to the boy. Being shown the world through Kien’s eyes is an addictive agony, like watching an accident in slow motion. Canetti brilliantly adds layers onto the fatal mix of faulty logic, arrogance and inability communicate with other people to create a really gripping and hilarious novel.