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Edgar Allan Poe and Elias Canetti: illuminating the sources of terror.[Critical essay]
From: The Southern Literary Journal
Date: 20050322
Author:Folks, Jeffrey J.
In The Torch in My Ear, the second volume of his four-volume autobiography, Elias Canetti recounts an episode from his university days in which he passed an uneasy morning in chemistry laboratory with a fellow student, Eva Reichmann: "I talked about a book I had started reading the day before: Poe's tales. She didn't know them, and I told her about one, 'The Telltale Heart,' which had really terrified me. ... I tried to free myself of this terror by repeating the story to her" (191). In seeking to dispel the terror generated by reading Poe's tale, Canetti turns to another human ...
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