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Elias Canetti / Marie-Louise von Motesiczky
Liebhaber ohne Adresse
Lovers without Residence. Correspondence 1942–1992
384 pages. Hardcover with illustrations
Publication date: August 29, 2011
Two artists meet in exile: Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, expressionist painter, and
Elias Canetti, aspiring author and philosopher. Their correspondence, spanning
half a century, bears witness to a great love.
London 1940. The destruction wreaked by German bombing raids makes the situation faced
by the émigrés who fled the Nazis even more precarious. In Amersham, an hour away from
the capital, two refugees from Vienna meet whose paths may never have crossed in their
home town: the painter Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, a student of Max Beckmann from
a wealthy aristocratic background, and the writer Elias Canetti, who is living the life of an
artist on the breadline with his wife Veza. The painter gives the writer financial backing, they
both support one another in their creative pursuits – and they fall in love.
Fraught with doubts and insecurities, blighted by deep-seated anguish and emotional
wounds, yet sustained by tenderness, caring and gratitude, the electrifying story of »Pio« and
»Muli« spans more than fifty years. The letters paint a vivid picture of how two people who
escaped a mortal situation gradually put down roots in their adopted homeland.
Elias Canetti
born 1905 in Rustschuk/Bulgaria, grew up in Vienna, studied natural sciences and took his
doctor’s degree in philosophy. In 1938 he and his wife Veza Canetti emigrated to London.
In 1981 Canetti received the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died in 1994 in Zurich.
The works of Elias Canetti have been translated into all major languages.