The collection of one of the greatest Austrian writers of the 20th century, Nobel Prize winner (1981) Elias Canetti includes excerpts from memoirs and diary entries, travel notes, articles on culture, fragments from the book of political journalism “Mass and Power”. As in recently published in Russian in the novel “Blinding” by E. Canetti, the main theme of this prose, varied in genre, is the cruel and tragic connection between man and the modern world. Recommended to a wide range of readers.