Die blendung: crisis of faith in the modern project

Abstract

This paper undertakes a socio-critical analysis of the mise en scène in Austrian writer Elias Canetti’s novel Die Blendung. The analysis centers on the critical treatment of reality and the despairing vision that Canetti objectivizes in this work about the processes of Modernity. From a critical realist position, Elias Canetti forcefully evaluates the blind confidence in the illustration ideal, from an exacerbated Modernity that is materialized in the problematic hero’s axiology.