Expressionist strategy in the work of E. Canetti

In this article, the author aims, firstly, to prove that of all the modernist schools, the Austrian writer, Nobel laureate Elias Canetti most of all gravitated towards expressionism, and secondly, to identify the trajectory of the development of the expressionist worldview and method in Canetti's works of different years. In the course of the study, the author comes to the following conclusions: in the expressionist strategy of the creativity of the Nobel laureate of the twentieth century. there was an upward movement. A priori, there was no place for a turn to a realistic method of mastering reality (this does not happen with E. Canetti's fellow tribesman - Leo Perutz, who at the end of his creative path plunged into mysticism). E. Canetti, on the other hand, followed the path of abstraction. To some extent, all works are characterized by schematization of images, carnivalism, cyclic chronotope (“loop chronotope”), apocalyptic worldview and world modeling. In the plays of E. Canetti, we can find features of the “drama of the proclamation” and the drama of the transformation.” The object of the study was three plays: "The Wedding" (1932), "The Comedy of Vanity" (1934), "Limited" (1964), the novel "Blinding" (1935), the book "Mass and Power" (1962). In part, an explanation of the nature of Kanetti's worldview can be found in the memoirs “With a torch in my ear. History of Life 1921-1931 (1980).