Monografiya posvyashchena tvorchestvu Eliasa Kanetti (1905 - 1994), avstriyskogo pisatelya, kotorogo po pravu mozhno nazvat' i britanskim, i bolgarskim), filosofa, publitsista, laureata Nobelevskoy premii 1981 goda po literature, avtora romana Osleplenie (Die Blendung, 1935), p'es Svad'ba (Die Hochzeit, 1932), Komediya tshcheslaviya (Die Komödie der Eitelkeit, 1933 - 1934), Ogranichennye srokom (Die Befristeten, 1952), a takzhe vsevozmozhnykh esse i kriticheskikh zametok na raznye temy. Predmetom issledovaniya stala problematika i zhanrovo-stilisticheskoe svoeobrazie sobstvenno khudozhestvennogo naslediya E.Kanetti, vzaimodeystvie modernizma i realizma v ego proizvedeniyakh, traditsii i novatorstvo v poetike prozy etogo nezauryadnogo khudozhnika slova. Krome togo, v knige zatragivaetsya vopros ob universal'nykh sintezakh literatury KhKh veka i smezhnykh s neyu gumanitarnykh nauk, teatral'nykh elementov i sobstvenno ritual'nosti kak sostavnoy chasti kul'turno-istoricheskoy zhizni obshchestva.