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Venetiana "Veza" Taubner-Calderon Canetti (Vienna, 1897 – London, 1963) was an Austrian novelist, playwright, and short story writer.[1] Her works – including singular short stories published in the Viennese Arbeiter Zeitung and other socialist outlets – were only published under her own name posthumously. She preferred pseudonyms, as was common at the time for left-wing or satirical authors, her favourite being Veza Magd (or Maid). The Tortoises (Die Schildkröten) which is set at the time of the Kristallnacht in 1938 remains her only known published novel. Her husband and Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Elias Canetti further posthumously declared her to be co-author of his Crowds and Power.[2] She was also a translator of Wolf Solent by John Cowper Powys (Zsolnay, 1930), though the named translator is Richard Hoffmann who owned the agency where she freelanced, and three books by Upton Sinclair for the Malik Verlag (1930-32), where the named translator is once again male, this time her partner and future husband, Elias Canetti.[3]

Biography

Venetiana "Veza" Taubner-Calderon was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1897 into a Sephardi-Jewish family. After World War I, she initially worked as an English teacher. At the age of 26 she met Elias Canetti, whom she would later marry in February 1934.

During the 1930s, she wrote short stories based on everyday life for the Viennese paper Arbeiter-Zeitung.[4] 'Patience brings Roses' was included in a Malik anthology in 1932 edited by Wieland Herzfelde, Dreissig Neue Erzähler des Neuen Deutschland. Junge deutsche Prosa. The reissue of this volume in the GDR fifty years later eventually led to her rediscovery by Helmut Göbel. After the defeat of Red Vienna in February 1934, it became increasingly difficult for her to publish. Tortoises draws from her time in Anschluss-Austria in 1938 and was written in exile in London and initially accepted by Hutchinson before the outbreak of war led the publishers to cancel the contract. It was only many years after her death in 1990 that the publication of Yellow Street led to her rediscovery. Her fiction was often political, usually witty and dialectical, grotesque, and partly autobiographical.

Works in English Translation

• The Tortoises (Die Schildkröten)[5]
• Yellow Street (Die gelbe Straße)[6]
• The Ogre (Der Oger), published in Anthology of Austrian Folkplays, trans. Richard Dixon (Riverside, CA: Ariadne, 1993)
• Patience Brings Roses (Geduld bringt Rosen), published in Viennese Short Stories, trans. Julian Preece (Riverside, CA: Ariadne, 2006)

• "dearest Georg": Love, Literature, and Power in Dark Times: The Letters of Elias, Veza, and Georges Canetti, 1933-1948 (New York: Other Press, 2010), edited by Karen Lauer and Kristian Wachinger, trans. David Dollenmayer

References

Vreni Amsler, Veza Canetti zwischen Leben und Werk: Eine Netzwerkbiographie (Innsbruck and Vienna: Studien Verlag, 2020) Sven Hanuschek, Elias Canetti: die Biographie (Munich / Vienna: Hanser, 2005)

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[de] Veza Canetti

Veza Canetti (geboren am 21. November 1897 in Wien, Österreich-Ungarn als Venetiana Taubner-Calderon; gestorben 1. Mai 1963 in London) war eine österreichische Schriftstellerin und Übersetzerin. Ihre Kurzgeschichten erschienen teilweise zu Lebzeiten in der Wiener Arbeiter-Zeitung und Neuen Freien Presse, jedoch nicht in gebundener Form. Auch schrieb Canetti Theaterstücke. Basierend auf ihrer Korrespondenz und Eigenaussagen wird spekuliert, dass einige ihrer nie veröffentlichten Werke von ihr selbst vernichtet wurden. Erst nach dem Tod ihres Mannes Elias Canetti, der sie posthum zur Mitautorin von Masse und Macht erklärte,[1] erschienen ihre Kurzgeschichten in zwei Bänden Die gelbe Straße und Geduld bringt Rosen sowie ihr einziger Roman, Die Schildkröten, als Druck im Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag.

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- [en] Veza Canetti

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[es] Veza Canetti

Venetiana "Veza" Taubner-Calderon Canetti (Viena, 1897 - Londres, 1963) fue una novelista, dramaturga y narradora austríaca.[1] Sus obras, entre las que se encuentran los singulares relatos publicados en el Arbeiter Zeitung de Viena y otros medios socialistas, solo se publicaron bajo su propio nombre después de su muerte. Como era habitual en la época entre los autores satíricos o de izquierda, prefería utilizar seudónimos, su favorito era Veza Magd (o Maid). Las tortugas (Die Schildkröten), ambientada en la época de la Noche de los cristales rotos, en 1938, sigue siendo su única novela publicada conocida. Su marido y premio Nobel de Literatura, Elias Canetti, la declaró póstumamente coautora de Masa y Poder. [2] También fue traductora de Wolf Solent de John Cowper Powys (Zsolnay, 1930), aunque aparezca como traductor de la obra Richard Hoffmann, propietario de la agencia en la que trabajaba como autónoma, y de tres libros de Upton Sinclair para Malik Verlag (1930-32), donde vuelve a aparecer un traductor varón, en esta ocasión su pareja y futuro marido, Elias Canetti.[3]

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