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Memoirs
His three volumes of memoirs are Die gerettete Zunge: Geschichte einer Jugend/The Tongue Set Free: Remembrance of a Childhood (1977), in which he writes of his earliest years; Die Fackel im Ohr: Lebensgeschichte 192131/The Torch in My Ear (1980), set mainly in Vienna and covering the period when Canetti came under the spell of satirist Karl Kraus; and Das Augenspeil/The Play of the Eyes (1985), which covers the years 193137, and is rich in satirical insights into the artistic Viennese society of the time.