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CROWDS AND POWER 495 pp.-Elios Canetti- Viking ($7.50 The gloomiest of modern thinkers have found the human being sex-ridden, despairing or just plain hollow. But Elias Canetti, 57, a Bulgarian-born novelist and playwright, goes further. In this massive, provocative and often brilliant work, he concludes that man is power-mad, and never more so than in a crowd...
This gruesome novel of human beastliness was one of the last (and most appropriate) to be published in Vienna before the Anschluss. Last year, it appeared in translation in England (where Bulgarian-born Author Canetti now lives) and set the critics ablaze pro & con. "Mere Central-European portentousness . . . at once heavy and trivial. . . . A terrific and inconsequent to-do about trifles,"harrumphed the dignified London Times Literary Supplement. "Appalling, magnificent," exclaimed the Spectator, "screams and bellows of evil out of which [a] supremely mad, unfaceable book is orchestrated . . . of which we dare not deny the genius...